All roads may lead to Rome, but it’s still an hour’s drive away from Civitavecchia, where cruise ships have to dock. That means with travel time, a day on our own excursion to Rome from […]
Hey, George Clooney: I’ll bet I had just as much fun during my stay at Venice’s Aman Canal Grande hotel as you did on your honeymoon. Before boarding a Holland America cruise out of Venice […]
The abiding truth about Florence is that it’s a long journey inland from the cruise port of Livorno. That kept Firenze safe by being a day’s march inland for invaders, but let’s face it; the […]
The breathtaking beauty of Venice is both a blessing and its curse. No other place on Earth has matched the feat of keeping its shape since the high Renaissance. It’s evaded not only urban renewal […]
Salve! It translates literally as “hail,” and dates back to the days when they were wearing togas in the Forum. It’s still a standard morning greeting of Romans when they’re talking among themselves. You hear […]
There were a dozen possible choices for a day ashore as Crystal Serenity docked in Livorno. Crystal Cruises’shore excursions offered expertly guided tours in the hill towns of Tuscany, rambles in Umbria , Pisa and […]
The problem with being a tourist in Venice these days is that there are a lot of other tourists in Venice these days. Crossing the lagoon-side bridge that parallels the Bridge of Sighs by day […]
It was 9 a.m. and I was doing something I never do at that hour: knocking back an after dinner drink. Six of us on a private van tour were visiting a citrus grove on […]
I’ve just had an overdose of quaint. On an all-day excursion from Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas in Italy, my tour to the picturesque Cinque Terre region was a day-long feast of views of […]
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