{"id":1796,"date":"2010-09-25T17:30:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T23:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2013-07-03T17:50:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T23:50:21","slug":"crusin-and-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=1796","title":{"rendered":"Crusin’ and Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I found this little letter on my computer — gives you an idea about the rocky beginning of the trip:<\/p>\n

We are on the cruise and having a nice time. Saw the coast of Sicily as we went through the passage between on the way to Dubrovnik.<\/p>\n

The airlines failed to connect our bags through Amsterdam so we spent a gut wrenching two days worrying about what to do if they didn’t get our bags to us before we sailed. In Rome \u2013 no change of clothes, no toiletries other than the purse stuff, meds for only a week\u00a0 \u2013 Bob had a comb, I had a nail clipper….. Don’t speaka da language… etc. An angel of a front desk person at the Rome Courtyard Marriott (Paola) \u2013 this is the hotel where all the retired pirates (what Ann Hutchins calls the pilots \u2013 it has stuck) are staying pre cruise. Long story short \u2013 the morning of boarding, Paola called once again for us and the bags were in Rome airport \u2013 whoopee \u2013 now we take a very expensive cab ride and pick them up \u2013 do not trust their delivery to anyone \u2013 and then another expensive taxi ride to the ship \u2013 where we boarded actually even before all the other pirates.<\/p>\n

They are an interesting group… Bob said (during the morning brunch) that you can just feel the \u201ccommand\u201d \u2013 I asked him how that felt and he said \u201ckind of creepy.\u201d Lots of jokes from him about the pirates not getting off on time on the bus because they were hassling about who would sit in the right seat — seniority— date of hire, etc.<\/p>\n

Formal dinner tonight \u2013 and a cocktail party with the pirates \u2013 free drinks for one hour.<\/p>\n

There is way to much to do even without the beautiful places we visit. Today is a day at sea \u2013 high tea in the formal dining room. Bob wasn’t into it so I went on my own and had a nice cuppa.<\/p>\n

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Greek Orthodox priest feeds the pigeons in Corfu<\/p><\/div>\n

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home on the Noordam, Holland America<\/p>\n

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morning on the verandah<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dubrovnik, old walled city<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dubrovnik lunch<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob on the verandah — what luxury!<\/p>\n

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We had a wonderful trip on a cruise through what is known as “The Roman Empire” Italy, Greece and Greek Isles, Dubrovnik, Croatia and Turkey<\/p>\n

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We made it to Athens and are having a Greek lunch before a trek to the Acropolis that you can see in the distance.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I found this little letter on my computer — gives you an idea about the rocky beginning of the trip: We are on the cruise and having a nice time. Saw the coast of Sicily as we went through the passage between on the way to Dubrovnik. The airlines failed to connect our bags […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/2610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}