Travel

Days 6 & 7~ Istanbul, Turkey/At Sea/Kusadasi, Turkey After being docked overnight in Istanbul, we set sail after lunch for Kusadasi. This felt more like an at-sea day since we stayed on the ship. We saw Istanbul the day before and had fun enjoying time on the ship instead. We spent the day doing on-board […]

Days 4 & 5~ At Sea/Istanbul, Turkey The 4th day of the cruise was an at-sea day, as we were making our way to Istanbul, Turkey. The kids spent nearly the entire day at the kid’s clubs. I think we only saw them both for meals. C was playing games, went to an ice cream […]

Day 3~ Santorini, Greece Day 3 was a bit of a different kind of day. The first half was still at sea and we arrived at Santorini, Greece in the early afternoon. It was an absolutely awesome day though; one I know the kids will remember and talk about for years to come. The morning […]

Day 2~ At Sea Day 2 of this luxurious cruise was an at-sea day, as we made our way to Santorini, Greece. We took our time getting up and ready for the day as there was no rush to be anywhere specific. We could just enjoy being in vacation mode. Everyone took a shower and […]

Day 1~ Civitavecchia & Check-in Packing up to leave Rome was bittersweet. We had so much fun exploring Rome but were beyond excited for our first cruise. After checking out of the hotel, we took the train to Roma Termini and Civitavecchia, the port where the cruise was departing from. It was about an hour-long […]

(This is part 2 of A Vacation to Rome. You can read Part 1 here.) Day 2 in Rome For our second day in Rome, we took the train to the city center again. (C loved this part-trains are fun to him!) After getting out of Roma Termini, we made our way to the hop-on-hop-off […]