Paris River Cruise

Paris River Cruise, River Baroness – Uniworld River CruisesDecember 26 2015 through January 3 2016 A quick note on how the river cruise operated. It is much different than an ocean cruise. A typical day is you have breakfast on board, head out on a tour with a local guide,…

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Christmas in Lausanne Switzerland

Christmas in Lausanne, Switzerland December 23 – 25, 2015 On our way to Paris for our cruise we stopped in Lausanne Switzerland for 3 days. We took the train from Lucca to Florence, spent the night and walked around. The next morning took the train to Milan then on to…

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Trans-Atlantic Cruise, Rome to Florida

Trans-Atlantic Cruise – Civitavecchia Italy to Ft. Lauderdale Florida USA, Holland America Line – Reindam. Oct 22 – Nov 9 2015. Day 1 Oct 22 – Left Lucca by train to Pisa then to Livorno, about 45 minute ride, and then taxi to port. This was the 2nd stop of…

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Norway and it’s Fjords

Land of the Midnight Sun Cruise Fjords of Norway, Holland America Line – m/s Ryndam. July 4 – 18 2015 Day 0 July 3 – Stansted, England. Left from Lucca and flew to Stansted Airport. We stayed the night at a Holiday Inn and then the next day took 3…

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Med Cruise March 2015

Mediterranean Cruise7 – 18 March 2015Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) – Jade  Our first cruise in Europe was on the Norwegian Jade for an 11 day voyage in the Mediterranean Sea. We left from Civitavecchia (Rome) and stopped at Livorno, Italy; Monte Carlo, Monaco; Toulon, France; Barcelona, Spain; Valencia, Spain; Cagliari,…

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Seville Spain

Seville, Spain 25 Feb – 1 Mar 2015 We went on a short trip to Seville to visit some friends we made in Lucca. They had gone back to the US for a few months and now were in Seville for 3 months. We went with another friend from Lucca…

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Amsterdam and Beyond

Amsterdam, The NeatherlandsSept 6 – 8 2014 So we went to Amsterdam to meet some friends from Orlando. So easy, took a train from Lucca to Pisa, bus from train station to Airport, flew into Amsterdam, train to our Hotel. The only stress was usual airport stuff and that was…

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