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  1. So this is off the wall but....we were staying in Padova for three weeks and took a bus ride to Chioggia for the day. It's a one hour ride, if I remember correctly. So you can do it the other way. The bus station in Padova is right beside the train station and is a 15 minute walk to the historic centre. Lots to see and do there so do your own research.
  2. According to the Globe and Mail this morning, the parties have reached an agreement, subject to ratification, so there will be no strike or lockout. The pilots get 42% over four years. The other 30,000 Air Canada employees must now be wondering how do I get that?
  3. We were on one Celebrity cruise where the cruise director had a Q & A session with passengers. One question related to supplies, things that the ship absolutely could not allow to run out. For the passengers it was toilet paper, for the crew it was rice.
  4. I Tre Camini - our charming host was Federica.
  5. Absolutely! We stayed there for three nights before our last cruise out of Civitavecchia. Our B & B host picked us up at the train station on arrival and then gave us a ride to the port with all our baggage. Great service!
  6. Hear, hear! We took our first Regent cruise back in October and we have been inundated with promotional mailings ever since. Last week, for example, three pieces in two days. We have also had three mailings from Oceania although we have never sailed on them. I have to say that all this stuff will have zero influence on when, where and how we take our next cruise. It seems like an awful waste of trees and money.
  7. I suppose there may a number of 'National Symphonies' around the world. The one I have enjoyed on QM2 is the English one with maestro Anthony Inglis.
  8. Oh, c'mon! Yes, Cunard is owned by Carnival Corp and the onboard currency is USD. But...but...guest speakers are Brits, guest performers could be the National Symphony Orchestra or Royal Shakepeare Company or British authors. When did Celebrity offer Last Night of the Proms? Golden Lion pub? Ploughman's Lunch? British ales on tap? Proper afternoon tea? Treacle pudding? How many baseball caps did you see in the dining room? Forwards or back to front? Ugh!! and again, ugh!! Enough already.
  9. Quite right, I should have been more precise regarding the interiors, not the exteriors. Now here is something off the wall - Museo Galileo. It's just up river from Uffizi. If you are interested in science and engineering it's amazing what those renaissance folks got up to. Have you ever seen a bowling ball roll uphill on its own? Here you will.
  10. I would agree with that. You have seen many photos of David but you have never seen his back. Right? You can, of course, walk all around it. It's impressive. We found Uffizi kinda boring and zapped through in an hour. I suppose lovers of art history could take a week, it's huge. I have done the climb to the Brunelleschi Dome (and the Campanile right next to it) twice. Now that is memorable. And if you have to choose between the Duomo and Santa Croce, then Santa Croce wins every time.
  11. Thank you so much for this review. I really enjoyed the Irish humour and found it an absolute gold mine of useful info. We are booked on the Millie for May of next year. Have never been to Japan so will take your experience to heart and bookmark this. Great work!
  12. Completely off topic, but anyway...you do remember the famous singer, Joe Bari? No? Well, he started out as Antonio Benedetto then changed his name to Joe Bari. But that did not last very long and then he became....yup, you got it!
  13. Excellent advice. Florence and Tuscany no. Florence! Period. You will have to be very selective for what to see in Florence, your time is so limited. Mind you, you can use your trip to plan a couple of weeks in Florence in future. Climb the Brunelleschi Dome and the Giotto Campanile, Michelangelo's 'David', Uffizi Gallery (waste of time), Ponte Vecchio, Palazzo Vecchio, Pitti Palace, Santa Croce, Mercato Centrale, Piazzale Michelangelo, hire a Ferrari for twenty minutes.......ah! Time to go back!
  14. Venice!! See the thing is, Roma, Firenze, Bologna are all cities with wonderful historic centres but Venice is so amazingly different. It's a bucket list thing and you only have to do it once but yes, you have to do it. I would hope that by October the crowds will be past their peak. You can research all the things to see and do there. You won't have time to do it all. And I'm assuming you are fit to walk and walk.
  15. I saw the news reports that it had been reopened. Good news. Finally. We walked it prior to the closure. I believe they now charge and limit the numbers per hour. That makes sense, too many people on that narrow path would not be good.
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