June 2014 - MSC Cruise Line
Venice, Bari (Italy), Olympia, Santorini, Athens, Corfu, Debrovnik (Croatia), Venice
Arrived in Venice on Friday and the cruise left on Sunday. had a couple of days to explore Venice
Gondola Ride with Bruno..
No shortage of gondola's
traffic jam in Venice..
Getting on the boat.. MSC Fantasia
10th floor of 14, balcony room
Only a couple of rough days at sea.. here's the ship's pool during the rough day..
Bari, Italy
We had been walling down a back street and found this nice Italian grandma making home made pasta shells.. she did it without looking .. suspect she had done it her entire life...
Cruise ship at the dock
Olympia - site of the ancient olympics
the running track and banked stadium
Santorini.. a beautiful island created from a extinct volcano that erupted in 1600 BC.. about 1500 years before Pompeii.. It put 40 ft of pumice on top of the island.
Ancient village (Akrotiri) buried by the volcanic eruption in 1600 BC... no bodies found indicating that the residents had advanced warnings and time to flee.
Did not realize that much of Greece is very arid. Below are a unique grape bush that survives on morning dews for moisture.
Nice view from the capital city Fira, including our boat.
The classic picture of Santorini.. which usually does not include a sleeping German Shepard
Athens
The Acropolis
Theatre of Herodes
Temple of Zeus
Entrance to Acropolis
Erechteion
The Parthenon
Corfu
Debrovnik, Croatia
Had about 6-7 other cruise ships in at the same time in a small town..
Back into Venice Port
St. Mark's Square
