Singinalot's 2023 Land Trip to Istanbul, Cappadocia, Rome, Amalfi Coast, & Florence
***Hi everyone!
I started cruising in fall 2014 when I made the leap to move from my home in Seattle to where my long distance at the time boyfriend lived in Colorado. He had been cruising for years solo or with ex girlfriends that we will not mention. I had just returned from a DIY land based in Ireland and then pretty much went straight into my first cruise: the Southern Caribbean.
If you’ve read my previous trip blogs you’ll know Nate and I got engaged in Sept 2018 i
So let’s get started, shall we?
The above screenshot was the rough itinerary I put together for our time, and I’ll talk about each day as we go along.
As I said, I booked us on Turkish airlines via United out of Tampa. We ended up with a 10 hour layover in Washington DC which I ended up being excited for. I hadn’t been to DC since I was a preteen and Nate had never been. The other exciting fact? My dad lives about an hour outside DC. He came to pick us up at the airport and spen