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What an adventure! I'm so glad you guys were able to turn around your Sorrento memory from a bad one to a good one. And then added in some more of Italy to top it off. I'll bet you didn't know that this would turn into such an educational journey as well; thanks Laurie!
I had no idea how much we'd learn - imagine how much we're all going to learn during our Med cruise next summer!
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Your stories were highly entertaining, as always. Especially the driving! Mark deserves something special for learning to deal with that.
Well, he did get this as a Christmas present - does that count?
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Thank you for sharing, it was a particularly enjoyable weekend!
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What a great trip it was! I agree about cruises. The time on shore is so brief and much of it is taken up getting to the site you're touring, that you're really just getting a taste to see if it's worth a real visit for you. Touring the sites on your own is so much better, but on a cruise you pretty much have to take the tour. I'm sure you'll get "Greeked-out" next summer, but I hope you'll really enjoy seeing these sights as well and I also hope you can avoid those rough seas! Bravo to Mark for driving on those roads. It's one of the most beautiful areas in the world and it was wonderful seeing it again through your lens.
What a great trip it was! I agree about cruises. The time on shore is so brief and much of it is taken up getting to the site you're touring, that you're really just getting a taste to see if it's worth a real visit for you. Touring the sites on your own is so much better, but on a cruise you pretty much have to take the tour. I'm sure you'll get "Greeked-out" next summer, but I hope you'll really enjoy seeing these sights as well and I also hope you can avoid those rough seas!
Amen to that! I'm sure it will be like everything, you can get too much of anything - we went through a phase with palaces where it was "seen that before"...
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Bravo to Mark for driving on those roads. It's one of the most beautiful areas in the world and it was wonderful seeing it again through your lens.
It certainly is one of the most beautiful parts of the world.
I too. want to "Thank You" for the time you take in putting TRs together for us to enjoy. In fact I will be looking for future reports, as you and Mark take us to places we may never see ourselves. I would like to Thank Mark too, for his part (driving, with those crazy Italians, I could not to it) on these wonderful adventures.
Great wrap up! Thank you so much for sharing your story and pictures of this long weekend in Italy. It has my mind working on more places I'd love to see some day.
Great TR as always It was so great to see up close what I could only see from the ship on our cruise. I spent a good portion of a sea day looking through binoculars at those crazy roads & trying to catch closer views of villages.
Looking forward to your next adventure !
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I say that cruises are like sampler platters - you decide if you like something and want to have more of it - or that you aren't a fan of that particular item (place). I would never consider a cruise a good immersion into a place.
I too. want to "Thank You" for the time you take in putting TRs together for us to enjoy. In fact I will be looking for future reports, as you and Mark take us to places we may never see ourselves. I would like to Thank Mark too, for his part (driving, with those crazy Italians, I could not to it) on these wonderful adventures.
Thank you! Well, Paris and Disneyland Paris is already underway and later this year, you have Northern Ireland and the Giant's Causeway, then Switzerland (with a bit of France, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein) and then Florida and Hawaii to look forward to later this year. Next year already has Mallorca, followed by our Med cruise, taking in Greece and Turkey with hopefully some time to our a bit more of Italy, so I'm doing my best!
Great wrap up! Thank you so much for sharing your story and pictures of this long weekend in Italy. It has my mind working on more places I'd love to see some day.
Well, any time you want to head over this side of the pond, we'll do our best to meet up with you!
I say that cruises are like sampler platters - you decide if you like something and want to have more of it - or that you aren't a fan of that particular item (place). I would never consider a cruise a good immersion into a place.
I must admit that's how I think of it as well. It'll be interesting to see what we make of our stops on the Med cruise next year...
Having been to San Juan, if there was ever an opportunity for us to sail out of there with Disney and spend a couple of days there first (the 2014 sailings from there don't work for us ), then I'd do it in a heartbeat, as that's somewhere I'd like to see more of...
Thanks for sharing - great report (as always!). Agree with everyone that cruising only gives you a mini-view of a place. We want to return to Norway, Sweden and Denmark after our glimpse on the Baltic cruise! A day isn't enough to do anyplace justice - even places that may not make a good first impression may have more to offer if you give it some time!
I also realized the onion I referenced last night in your Paris TR was a actually in this TR. guess it wouldn't have worked to save them to add to the fish.....
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I'll bet you didn't know that this would turn into such an educational journey as well; thanks Laurie!
I had no idea how much we'd learn - imagine how much we're all going to learn during our Med cruise next summer! 
Mark deserves something special for learning to deal with that. 
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Thanks so much for taking us along for the ride! What a great trip! 
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