Monthly Archives: May 2007

Olbia, Sardinia

This may be the one stop on the trip that you’ve never heard of. Sandwiched between Naples and Rome, Olbia is a side trip to the island of Sardinia. It’s the closest you’ll get to a day in the country … Continue reading

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Disney Med Cruise: Naples -The Long & Winding Road

May 29, 2007 – Today we arrive in Naples Italy. As the 3rd largest city in Italy, its home to 1.5 million and one of the best, yet worse shore tours I have ever been on. I’ll get to that in … Continue reading

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Mysterious Palermo

At the Crack of 12:15 we met our tour group in Studio Sea. OK, so maybe 12:15 and crack don’t go together, but that’s when we met our group to start the first (official) tour of the trip. Out to … Continue reading

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Ciao Palermo

We’ve just pulled into port at Palermo – it’s 8:00 here. I’ve handed off my new silk jacket to the Disney cleaning crew – it was collateral damage in a flying wine war last night! One of our table mates brought … Continue reading

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Sea Day

Today I don’t have much to report. Our first day out of Barcelona is a sea day, which is great because most of us needed the extra time to recover from our jet lag. I spent the day reading and … Continue reading

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Disney Med Cruise: Embarkation day!

We checked out of the hotel and joined the other guests in the lobby waiting for the all aboard call for the transfers. They had two motor coaches parked outside and while it was a little disorganized (it was their … Continue reading

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Disney Med Cruise: Hello Magic – My Old Friend!

Today we are reunited with our old friend the Disney Magic! My body clock is still a little off and I was up till 3 am Barcelona time packing and catching up on blog entries. The checked bags were picked up by … Continue reading

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Disney Med Cruise: The British Connection

We land in London May 24th – 10 am London time. The steward provides the landing card we need to fill out and a very coveted fast pass ticket that allows us to skip the regular queue and breeze right … Continue reading

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If it’s Friday this must be Montserrat

Friday morning, after a stout 3 hours of sleep, making six hours in the past two nights, I got up early and met our crew (Deb, Linda, Sandy, & Sharon) for breakfast. After that we went to the Lobby to … Continue reading

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Disney Med Cruise: Crossing the Pond

We arrived at the airport in plenty of time to check in at the Alaska airlines desk for our first flight to Chicago. They tell us our bags have been checked thru but unfortunately we need to check ourselves in … Continue reading

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