Shadows & Light

This is our last morning on the ship. As I write we're sitting in port in Civitavecchia, north of Rome. We have to be off the ship at 8:...

Yesterday we were up bright and early for a rather involved excursion to Genoa. We were anchored in Portofino, which is about 40 kilometers ...

Because yesterday was another day at sea, I don't have any pictures of Italy to share -- except a hazy look at Elba Island off our dista...

Oh, it was hot. So hot. But the Amalfi Coast was beautiful and Dave and I had a great time, cruising along the cliffs on a boat and wanderi...

This is what we woke up to yesterday morning -- the Virgin Mary, towering over the harbor in Messina, Sicily, reminding us in Latin that she...

Dave and I were sitting in a lounge just off this foyer yesterday evening when I said to him, "I haven't taken a single picture tod...

As I mentioned at the end of yesterday's post, our plans changed and we spent the day at sea. We were supposed to go to Kotor, Montenegr...