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Our last day in Athens had us up early looking for breakfast near our hotel. We found the Regal Restaurant after just a few minutes walk, most places were still setting up their patios.

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After breakfast we returned to the hotel, Acropolis Stay to check out. We would definitely recommend this hotel - the staff are super friendly and the rooms are spotless! It’s just a quick 5-10 minute walk from the Acropolis (side entrance) and Monastiraki Square is only 15-20 minutes. It was a good thing we liked this hotel as we will be staying here again after the cruise before flying home. The only drawback was the elevator is for luggage only, our room was up two flights of stairs and our knees were not a fan.

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After checking out we waited for our ride to the port of Piraeus port and our home for the next 11 days - The Celebrity Infinity.

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After arrival we dropped our luggage with the porters, got checked in, went through security, and after a short wait we were on board. First stop the Muster Drill, to get it out of the way, then on to our room to pick up our room keys and drop our remaining bags. Next stop Lunch in the buffet.

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We spent the afternoon on the pool deck in the sun with some refreshments before heading to supper and then checking out the evenings activities. A show in the theatre, games and trivia, and music and dancing in the lounge.

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Day 2 on the Infinity was a relaxing sea day. These sea days have challenges getting a lounge chair anywhere near the pool. It took us a while but we did manage to find a good spot. We settled in to what would become our norm, afternoons by the pool, dinner in the main dining room, followed by a show in the theatre, then games, trivia, music and dancing in the lounge.

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Our full day in Athens started early with a quick pastry for breakfast on the way to the Acropolis for our early 8 am entry to beat the crowds.

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It was a 20 minute walk from the side, or Dionysus Theater, entrance, past the Odeon of Herodes Atticus up some incredibly uneven stairs, slippery marble walkways, and incredible views of Athens to the Propylaea which serves as the grand entrance to the Acropolis.

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After spending a couple of hours on the Acropolis we made our way back down the hill heading to Syntagma Square and the Hellenic Parliament to watch the changing of the guard. Planning on attending the full ceremony which includes the official ceremonial parade of the Evzones, we thought we were getting there early, as recommended for the grand Sunday ceremony. As we walked up the steps a crowd of probably 2000 people were already there before us.

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We stopped for lunch at Kosmikon before strolling through Plaka, Monstaraki, and the Roman Agora and wandering through the streets back to our hotel.

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We left Halifax at noon on April 17th with a stopover on Toronto in our way for Athens, Greece for our 11 day cruise of Greece and Türkiye. Flying in a few days early to checkout Athens and get use to the time change.

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After two flights and 12 hours in the air, over 17 hours from the first take off to arriving in Athens, we are on the ground at 11 am picking up our bags and trying to find our ride to the Acropolis Stay Hotel. Arriving so early meant our room would not be ready so, we dropped off our bags and headed out to start our tour of Athens.

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As with our previous cruise we arrived on Free Entry day so most attractions were quite busy. We decided to go to the Acropolis Museum as the Acropolis itself would be too crowded on a day with no entry fee, our tickets were already purchased for an early start tomorrow.

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As we walked up to the museum we noticed we could see through the walkway. During construction they found ruins so they built directly over them preserving and showcasing them.

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We spent a couple of hours wandering through the museum.

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After we left the museum we went on a walk back to the hotel looking for supper and got our first look at the Parthenon.

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Sleep did not come easy on the plane and we were reaching the end of our day, having been up for over twenty eight hours.\nHad a great supper at sto Kentro Eatery before retiring for the night.

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✈️ 🇨🇦-🇬🇷 🗺️

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Checking in from Mississauga, ON, Canada
\n7 °C and Cloudy

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Arrived in Toronto, no gate for us, we sit looking at the airport!

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Checking in from Spato-Loutsa, Attica, Greece
\n13 °C and Windy

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Waiting to board the flight to Toronto.

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Checking in from Philopappos Hill, Athens
\n12 °C and overcast

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Amazing views of the Acropolis on our last day in Athens.

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Checking in from Little Venice, MyKonos
\n18 °C and Sunny

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Last stop before returning to Athens.

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Checking in from Oia, Santorini, Greece

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18 °C, sunny with a slight breeze.

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Checking in from Rodos, South Aegean, Greece
\n21 °C and Sunny

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Sore feet but we still managed a 5km walk through Old Town.

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Checking in from Selcuk, İzmir, Türkiye
\n21 °C and Sunny

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Hot day for the Epheseus tour.

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Checking in from the Aegean Sea,
\n17 °C and Sunny

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Another relaxing sea day by the pool!

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Checking in from Fatih, Istanbul, Türkiye
\n15 °C and Sunny

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High pressure sales everywhere.

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Checking in from , , Türkiye
\n14 °C and Sunny

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Cool sea day. A few drinks, a few shows and an ABBA singalong.

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Checking in from , , Greece
\n13 °C and Drizzle

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Long walk on a rainy day

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Checking in from , , Greece
\n19 °C and Mostly Sunny

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Relaxing sea day on our way to Thessaloniki.

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Checking in from , , Greece
\n20 °C and Sunny

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Two long days in Athens complete, finally on board the Celebrity Infinity!

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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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✈️

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Last morning on board started early to prepare for our transfer to Venice. There were no direct options left so we were taking a bus from Ravenna to Bologna and then a train into Venice.

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The call to the bus came just after 8am so we headed for the gangway to exit the ship for the last time, collect our luggage and get it loaded in to the bus.

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An hour later we were in Bologna outside of the train station. This where the fun ends. The bus stops and it opens its doors and a few people including myself exit the bus. I was on the side walk and Robin was still on board, it closes its doors and pulls away. It was blocking traffic so the driver moved farther down the street. To get to it I needed to go through a crowd of people waiting to get on another bus to get to our luggage.

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We pick up our luggage and head for the train station. Shortly after this I realized I did not put my iPhone in my sling bag but put in my shorts pocket and it is no longer there.

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Panic, and anger, sets in. I retrace my steps back to the bus but it is no where to be found. Using Robin’s iPhone I logged in to my Find My to mark my phone as lost and followed it moving away from the train station. Next I set it to be erased.

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While on the train looking in Find My I see it show up at what looks like a bus depot. Thinking maybe I was not pick-pocketed and it may still be on the bus I called Celebrity to see if they can contact their bus line and see for it can be found. Case filed and hopefully, fingers crossed, it can be recovered. FUTURE ME: It was not recovered, I was pick-pocketed.

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Trying to put this aside we arrive in Venice and look for a water bus to get us to the Hotel Castello.

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NOTE: I would not recommend having multiple pieces of luggage when using public transportation. Two weeks worth of clothes is not easy to move around on crowded busses or through the narrow cobblestone streets.

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Once checked in to our hotel we head out for dinner at Aciugheta and then wander through the streets to explore the city and pick up the last few souvenirs in the short time we have.

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Since my iPhone is gone I used Robin’s to get our pictures in Venice.

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Our last day of the cruise is a sea day on our way to Ravenna.

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Today started the same as yesterday with a lot of rain that cleared quickly while we were at breakfast, which was again a full house.

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The morning activity was a lecture in the theatre, Beyond the Podium: Venice: The Floating City by John W. Bailly giving some history and insights into the creation of Venice. Following the lecture we started re-packing our suitcases for the journey home.

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Taking a break we had a quick lunch and then went to the Celebrity Activities Team: Murder Mystery - a musical trivia, not even close to the top score, and a little shopping before returning to our room to finish the packing. We wanted to get our luggage out before heading to dinner to be collected for an easier disembarkation. Packing the souvenirs we purchased was proving difficult as our bags were pretty full when we got here and we still had Venice to visit.

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One last visit to the main dining room for another excellent meal followed by the last show in the Celebrity Theatre and a walk around the ship.

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🗺

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Today we are in Split, Croatia for our final port day and was expecting all little rain in the morning.

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Luckily we were not planning an early departure this morning and arrived at the breakfast buffet to see some incredibly dark skies before the rain started. Well we got rain, almost horizontal rain, for at least a half an hour. Once we found a table we grabbed some breakfast and settled in to wait for the skies to clear before heading in to town.

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Since we were docked close it was just a short 15 minute walk to the edge of the old city and the market stalls.

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We toured the Diocletian’s Palace along with its Basement Halls built in the 4th century AD. After the palace we wandered through the old city, souvenir hunting and trying the local gelato before returning the market stalls for more souvenirs then back to the ship, the pool deck, and the bar.

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Tonight’s dinner was the last Evening Chic night so most were dressed in their finest before heading to the Theatre for the last show by the Celebrity singers and cast dancers for their Showcase performance.

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Very early start to the day to watch the ship sail in the Kumbur Channel to the Bay for Kotor with the cliffs dwarfing the Constellation on both sides.

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Our ship does not dock in Kotor and there is a 30 minute tender to the shore so we needed to ready as soon as the tenders are available at 8 am. If we missed the first ones we were going to make our 9 am time for our Kotor: Boat Cruise with Blue Cave Swim and Submarine Base | GetYourGuide.

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Back in Kotor we stopped for lunch at Restoran Giardino and then strolled around the old city before catching a tender back to the ship.

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The early start and the sun have taken their toll and we are exhausted, fell asleep by the pool, thankfully out of the sun.

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We stayed on the pool deck to watch the Constellation sail out of Kotor Bay with the cliffs high above the boat and headed to the buffet for dinner.

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Tonight’s show was a three piece vocal group, Rebel, performing a rock history from the 60’s to the 90’s.

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We were off the ship around 9 am and on a shuttle bus heading into Dubrovnik to explore the old city and to\nwalk the wall. Approximately 2 km from start to finish and just over a thousand stairs with little to no shade in the 26°C heat. A great way to spend a Monday morning!

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This was the entrance to the wall with approximately 100 fairly steep steps up. I stopped counting before I got to the top, just concentrated on breathing and hoped my knees would make it.

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With the heat taking its toll we made our way back the shuttle bus pick up location.

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This is probably the only issue we’ve had on the entire cruise. The company Celebrity contracted the busses from had little to no organization and crowd control in place. We waited a long time in full sun before a bus to come only to have to wait for another one as the back of the line rushed forward taking seats from those of us who had been in line from almost an hour.

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Back on board the Constellation we made our way to pool deck to cool down before heading to dinner.

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After dinner we saw a Pete Matthews: the Crazy Juggler in the theatre. This was definitely one of the best shows we have seen. He came on stage at full speed and never slowed down.

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The last rays of sun dropping behind the Croatian coastline as we leave Dubrovnik heading for tomorrow’s adventure in Kotor.

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A late arrival in Brindisi let us sleep in and have what we thought would be a relaxing start to the day, it appears 2000 other people thought the same.

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Breakfast at the buffet was a mad house. People were walking in every direction, lines meant nothing and some, many, felt it was ok to stop in the middle of traffic for no apparent reason. We had to walk around the entire cafe twice to find a table.

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Next, we hopped on the cruise shuttle into the old town and walked the waterfront and through some of the side streets to get a feel of some history of the town.

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A two hour walk felt a lot longer in the 32°C heat, not a lot of shade near the waterfront so we jumped back on the cruise shuttle to get a late lunch and find a spot by the pool for the afternoon.

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Eating late meant we skipped the main dining room and grabbed a late dinner before heading to the Theatre for the Alfreda Gerald: Tina Turner Tribute.

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We arrived at the port of Messina just before breakfast and waited to be cleared to leave the ship.

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A hot, but thankfully breezy, walk around the old town showed us some photo opportunities but little in the way of shopping. Most were still closed as we made our way back for the ship around 11:30 am.

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Found a spot at the pool before lunch and plan to be here most of the day.

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After dinner the night’s entertainment is the Magic of Gabriel in the Celebrity Theatre followed by the Pub Quiz and the Liar’s Club in the Reflections Lounge.

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We are in the port of Naples today with another early start. Our excursion has us travelling to Pompeii for a guided tour of the amphitheater and some of the restored ruins.

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“… this inscription on a travertine slab at the entrance of the amphitheater of Pompeii, testifies the year of construction (about 80 BC) and indicates the amphitheater as the oldest building for shows come to us in good condition. The term amphitheater has Greek origin and it is indicated for the first time by Vitruvius.

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“Caius Quinctius Valgus son of Caius and Marcus Porcius son of Marcus, as the mayors of fifth year, for expression of honor for the colony, had built at his own expense the building for the shows, and donate it to the citizens of the colony in perpetuity”

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We definitely could have spent more time exploring but was limited by the tour group, it would have been nice to some self explore time after the guided portion.

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After Pompeii we took a shuttle in to the city Center and did a little exploring before finding a small pizza place, Caffe’ E Sapori Caffetteria Gelateria Gourmet, before returning to the ship for some drinks by the pool.

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After another fantastic dinner in the main dining room we were back in the Celebrity Theatre for the Broadway Cabaret and we finished up the evening at the poolside for the Full Moon Party.

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