Fall Trip 2012

This fall I'll be joining Mary in Europe for a cruise out of Barcelona, Spain. Mary is already in Ireland, flying over for a cousin's week with her sister Rosie and (US) cousins Anne and Barbara. Mary stayed an extra few days to visit with her Irish extended family and will catch a hop on Aer Lingus from Dublin to meet me Friday night. My flight is direct from Philadelphia on Thursday night arriving early on Friday, the ship (Norwegian Spirit) leaves port on Saturday afternoon.

The cruise will be for 12 nights and will finish up in Venice where we'll stay a couple of extra nights to explore the city. Stops along the way will be in Toulon, Livorno, Rome, Naples, Istanbul, Ephesus (Turkey), Mykonos (Greese) and Athens. We're excited about seeing new places and some we haven't seen in a long time, like Athens where we visited together in 1973 when I was a young navy Lieutanant on USS Fairfax County.

I'll try to post as often as I can with the blog. The ship's schedule is busy with a new port most every morning and we have tours set up already for all day in most of them. A work friend who took the same cruise last spring said it's a great trip but tiring. I programmed in a few rest days so we'll see how we do.

My old travel laptop is on it's last  voyage, hopefully it can make one last trip and keep us connected while we're away. That's all for now, I have packing to do before Becky takes me to the airport today at 3:00. My flight leaves at 6:20. Love to all ..... I'll be waving as I fly over the city this evening.