Our Life in Italy
Welcome to our blog! As you can see by the menu, we traveled a lot since we retired in 2015. We moved to Italy In March 2022, and have organized our site to focus on our new life and adventures.
Be sure to follow the links to photos embedded in the blogs. Photos make a difference!
Barcelona to Dubai
May 10 to 26
After just one day in Barcelona, we'll sail to these ports:
Rome, Italy (May 12)
Naples, Italy (May 13
Suez Canal passage (May 18)
Aqaba, Jordan (May 19)
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (May 26-27)
Rome --> Tuscania
Small town with quaint buildings, old churches and walls.
church was built about 1400
Railing is wide at bottom to accommodate a woma's skirt
Overlooks countryside
Pompeii and Naples
to hold up lead sheeting
Again, sorry about the vertical photos.
We were quite amazed at the size of Pompeii. Margaret was amazed at the red light district. .... the artifacts brought tears to her eyes.
Athens
This is a view from our balcony
Patron goddess of Athens
There are only photos of ancient sites, as they are the most interesting to us. The city itself, as Mike said, is pretty gritty.
Suez Canal
Petra
The plan was to move through the Canal during the night, but we did not begin to enter until about 7:00 a.m. Good thing for us, as we were able to see so much. And the locals were gawking at us, too. Do you think the authorities held us up so that locals could see our ship?