Last day in Europe, we grab a couple of pastries for breakfast and head to the Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II to meet our airport water taxi.

Airplane wing cruising above a blanket of white clouds under a clear blue sky

Bronze relief sculpture of a shield with the letters SPQR and an animal paw, resting on draped fabric on stone steps. In the background, a stone wall with intricate carvings of helmets, shields, and garments. Text on the wall reads I MAGGIO MDCCCLXXVI.

A polished wooden boat with a beige canopy docked between wooden piers in calm water near urban buildings. A yellow sign inside the boat reads TAXI.

One hour later we are at the airport, get checked in, through security, and waiting at the gate for our first flight, 8.5 hours to Montreal.

Once again noise cancelling headphones and inflight entertainment made the flight just fly (pun intended) by. We were fed a full lunch along with snacks provided twice during this flight. Is this only on international flights? I have never had the same service when flying domestically.

Once in Montreal we had a seven hour layover before we could catch our one hour flight back honey to Halifax. We grabbed a meal at the Pork and Pickle and then found a quiet area at an unused gate, put on our headphones, and watched a couple of episodes of Clarkson’s Farm.

The last flight home was delayed, slightly, due to the pilots coming in on a delayed flight.

1:03 am on June 16 we landed back at Halifax Stanfield International with our daughters MacKenzie and Lorien waiting to pick us up.

After thirteen months of planning and fifteen days of travelling we come to the end of our honeymoon, 20 years late, our first cruise, and our first vacation with just the two of us.

We have already started talking about the next one! Maybe the another cruise, this time in the Southern Caribbean in early 2026?

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