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Amalfi coast We are off the ship now. It was lovely, lovely, lovely, but it’s great to be in Rome. I am eager to go home in a couple of days. This vacation was exactly the right length, but that will be another blog post at another time.…

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It may be a cruise staple but the galley tour is one of my favorite things about cruising (right up there along with shopping with the chef.) We stayed on board yesterday. We weren’t feeling too excited about Crotone, I wanted to make a start in a book…

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Back in Corfu and finally got on the list to go shopping with the exec chef of the ship. So many people want to go and so few can that they put out the announcement in the daily newsletter the night before and it’s a scramble as otherwise…

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Fearing yesterday would be a rerun of the day before (hot,hot,hot) I decided to stay on board while Jerry took a 7 hour tour of Olympia and had lunch on an olive farm.? In the event, it was a much cooler day with lots of breeze but we…

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Yesterday was a blogging holiday. We didn’t budge off the ship in Athens. It was HOT, like 110 degrees hot, so we vegged. It was nice, but not too much to say about it.? Today it was just as hot but we were in Nafplio and I wanted…

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It started out as a secret fling. I was an end-stage grad student in a department where he had recently been hired as a professor and although I was single and he was in the process of getting divorced and our different fields meant that we would never…