Category Archives: Europe 2022 Wedding Trip

Europe 22 Korcula, Croatia, 2

June 27 Croatia. My new happy place. Korcula is itself an island, which I did not realize before. Just as an aside, supposedly Marco Polo was born here and there is a little house you can pay money to see … Continue reading

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Europe ’22. Split, Croatia

June 26 This is a short one because I bowed out. I gave it the old college try (which considering how hard I tried in college, that might not be the apt comparison, but whatever). Too hot for Mary!  Al went … Continue reading

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Europe ’22 Trieste, Italy and Slovenia

June 24 – 26 We are almost to Split, Croatia, it’s about 8 a.m. and we are sailing in through an archipelago area, the water like glass except for a few ripples.  We are two hours away from docking again, so … Continue reading

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Europe ’22 – Korcula Croatia

The 2.5 mile hike was cancelled due to lack of interest. Good thing… Welp. So much for lesson about not getting off the boat. Woke up offshore in Korcula, looks gorgeous over there, have to tender in. Walked out onto … Continue reading

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Europe ’22 – Souda Bay, Chania Crete, Greece

June 21 Woke up exhausted. Had a cup of coffee and my breakfast in the room, looked out the balcony and thought “whatever”. Went back to sleep until about 10:30 a.m. to find Al had already walked around a bit … Continue reading

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Europe ’22 – Mykonos

Europe June 20 Mykonos June 20  It was a short stop in Mykonos, just five hours, and that was plenty. Unless you are staying on Mykonos for a few weeks in the estate that Jackie O’s household help stayed in, … Continue reading

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Europe ’22 – 40 years in Istanbul

June 19, 2022 It is a strange feeling to be married for forty years.  It is almost impossible to place myself in that place and time and remember what I thought “being married for forty years” would look like.  I can’t imagine … Continue reading

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Europe ’22 – Istanbul, Turkey

Just a quick one tonight. Arrived in Istanbul at 4 p.m. after a day pretty much sitting around. I don’t know how I still got 10K steps in but I did. We went out for a sunset boat ride. Maybe … Continue reading

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Europe ’22 Kusadasi/Ephesus Turkey

  June 17, 2022 Once again I am in the position of trying to summarize an entire day of a tour guide pouring information into my brain. I’m so tired (this has been going on for a few days now … Continue reading

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Europe ’22 Athens (Piraeus)

June 16 Oh Magoo, you’ve done it again.  That’s all I could think of as we walked down from the Acropolis.   Al once again put together an amazing tour through a private company.  9 of us in a Mercedes bus … Continue reading

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