Mediterranean cruise planning
October 7, 2008
We don’t exactly brag about this, but Renkoo has had an unreal record of death, disease, and destruction for a company of such modest size, with such young and well-educated workers. For the entire three and a half years we’ve been in existence, we’ve hardly gone a month without a burglary, funeral, traumatic hardware failure, or hospital visit.
After a devastating beginning to the year, I decided that I would fulfill my mother’s wish to visit early Christian sites in Turkey and Italy. So I did some research, and concluded that it would be most efficient to take a cruise. The Mediterranean is so small that basically it amounts to creeping along like a snail, with transportation and housing in one unit at night while you spend your days visiting historic sites.
If anyone has advice about lunch spots, can’t-miss sights, or early Christian history in of the following ports of call, please get in touch:
* Istanbul
* Izmir/Ephesus
* Athens
* Dubrovnik
* Venice
* Naples
* Rome
* Barcelona
I’m not the world’s greatest shopper, but I would be more than happy to repay your information by bringing you back some trinket or luxury item from the city in question. Thank you!
October 22, 2008 at 2:59 am
Hi Joyce, some recommendations in Istambul
You may already know but you cannot miss: Sta. Sophia, blue mosque, Topkapi Palace, the bazaar. If you have time it is recommendable to visit: Galata tower, as you have will have great views of the city, Ciragan Palace(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87%C4%B1ra%C4%9Fan_Palace) : a former palace now a hotel, it is lovely just to walk the terrace and the gardens, Pera Palace (http://www.perapalas.com) (a hotel where most famous visitors in late XIX-XX use to stay included Agatha Christie, Mata-Hari, Alfred Hitchcock, Hemingway!, there is a very small tea saloon in the same style of XIX century and it is lovely (it is worthy to have a tea there!).
More to come!
Elena