Our Annual Plans...

In a week we will be leaving for our annual Thanksgiving Day Cruise, yes since this is the second year I believe I can officially call it annual. We started this tradition to get out of cooking and traveling via land or air during the busy holiday rush. Traveling by boat over Thanksgiving seemed to be the perfect solution. Last year we took a short sea excursion, this year we have amped it up a bit. On our cruise we will spend seven nights at sea and visit four different countries. Some individuals have told us they would never cruise around Europe for various reasons, we obviously feel different. For our small family the most stressful parts of a vacation can be how we will get to our destination, where we will sleep and what we will eat once checked into our hotel that probably took some extensive research to find. For us a cruise solves all these problems it gets us, in this case, from country to country while we enjoy some boat downtime with plenty of onboard choices of where to eat.

The MSC Magnifica

Our cruise starts in Venice, Italy and from there hits Bari, Italy, Olympia, Greece, Izmir and Istanbul, Turkey, and finally Dubrovnik, Croatia before returning to Venice. While the weather this time of year will probably be chillier then traditional cruise weather, the scenery should more than make up for that.

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Originally Dunbrovnik was not a city we were excited about visiting, but after reading some travel books we have changed our tune!