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Port Days in Italy

Day 49 Italian Train Strike Impacts Civitavecchia to Rome

June 22, 2007

Today we are in Civitavecchia on the Norwegian Jewel. We had considered a train ride to explore other nearby areas of Italy outside of Rome.   However, the Italian rail workers decided to strike today; disrupting many cruise ship guests plans. There are 7 ships in  port today. Plan B — we mailed a wedding gift [...]

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Happy Father´s Day and Catching Up in Croatia

June 17, 2007

Hello from Dubronvik, Croatia!   We are in an internet cafe with a computer with a Croatian?? keyboard — it has some letters and symbols in different places than we are used to them being. We are currently sailing on the Norwegian Jewel between Istanbul and Barcelona — arriving in Barcelona on June 24. A few [...]

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Day 30: At sea between Katakolon, Greece and Istanbul

June 3, 2007

Today was a well-timed day at sea to rest up for Istanbul on Monday! There were several new interesting additions to the usual shipboard activities, starting with a 10 am coffee chat with Captain Chris Turner and Cruise Director Trevor Millar. The captain talked about his background then took questions about the ship. Regarding the [...]

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Day 24 – Naples, Italy – gelato, ancient artifacts and pizza

May 28, 2007

  After all of the publicity about the trash strike in Naples, we are happy to report that we didn’t see any signs of it during our visit on Monday. We found Naples fairly clean, friendly and fun to visit. Our only difficultly was crossing the busy traffic & scooter-filled streets to get from the [...]

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