The cabin was nicely appointed and clean.  The balcony is very small, along with the cabin size and bath area.  As our last cruise was on Viking, which had larger bathrooms, so we were disappointed on space only.

However, our cabin steward was excellent and addressed any items that we asked about and our room was refreshed twice a day.  I think we only had to call once to have them check on the safe as it was not working properly.

Our cabin location was great, no problems.

Need more time in Rome.  Too crowded, esp. in the Vatican to really enjoy the time we had.  Excellent tour of the Colisseum.

Luckily we arrived early enough before the crowds got too thick.

Too crowded....need to go back when the crowds are not so bad.

Luckily this was our first stop in the morning before the crowds got too bad.

We went on a winery tour and stopped at Le Castellet which was one of my favorite stops.

Toulon

Valencia

Santorini

Interesting to see how the carpets are made.

Fulfilled a bucket list item!  Wish they had restrooms though.

Naples

Huge lemons, good gelato, neat tour of the wood inlay factory

A fun stop....the monkeys were entertaining!

Gibraltar

Due to strike, arrived too late to see anything.

Athens (Piraeus)

Too crowded....need to go back when the crowds are not so bad.  Also, had some issues while waiting in line to get into the Uffizi museum (rude museum employee).

Too crowded....need to go back when the crowds are not so bad.  Not enough time to tour.

Luckily we were able to spend more time and get up close to the statue.  A remarkable work of art!

The itinerary:

LOVED Santorini (expecially the town of 'Oia' and the dessert wine was good), Mykonos, Delos, Ephesus (it was very hot the day we went and there are no bathrooms so it was a little uncomfortable, but the experience of Ephesus and House of Mary was wonderful), Palermo (catacombs were very interesting and would have liked more time to spend in the city), Naples/Pompeii (finally made it there after many years of wanting to go), Sorrento (could not get over the huge lemons and gelato was excellent), Positano (lunch at the beach level was great), Rome (crowds were a pain, but definitely need more time there, including the Vatican), Florence (same as Rome, need more time there), Pisa and we had lunch at some villa which was interesting.This was a little bit of a disappointment because the food was so good when we went to Alaska on the Diamond ship (and we have been on the Viking cruises where the food is excellent).

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