Category: Travel

For those of you who haven’t been following us on Facebook, my wife Jane and I had a marvelous 4 days in Greece before beginning the main part of our journey. October 2 marks our 25th wedding anniversary, and we have been planning a special trip for a long, long time. We booked Viking’s “Voyage of Marco Polo” on April 14, 2017 and have been counting the days ever since. We took Viking’s Rhine River cruise seven years ago. We appreciated that Viking promotes these cruises as exploration, cultural, and learning journeys, rather than having its ships be floating casinos. When we started thinking about a silver anniversary cruise, we compared our bucket list of places to visit, and Viking’s itinerary looked too good to pass up. We began our trip on August 15, 2018 when we arrived for a 4-day extension based in Athens. By the time we make it back home on September 27, we will have visited: Greece: Athens Mycenae ...