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In June we travelled to Venice. We spent three days West of Venice in Verona and Lake Garda. The scenery was spectacular and the wine even better (Amarone). We stayed in the lovely town of Verona in the Guilietta Hotel which shares a small square with the famous house and balcony of Juliet (ie: Romeo and Juliet).We then traveled by train with another couple to Venice and transferred via boat to our hotel, Ca’Segredo. What a lovely hotel right on the Grand Canal. Venice is a one-of-a-kind place to visit. Getting around is easy, either walk or take the water taxi’s. Private water taxi or gondola are other options, though spendy. The rest of our group, 12 total, joined us in Venice. We did go out to Murano Island and visit a lovely glass factory – quite a site. After several days and some great meals, we got on the new L’Austral ship, Compagnie du Ponant cruise line. It holds around 200 passengers and we headed out of Venice for stops in Croatia and Montenegro.
We sailed along the Dalmatian Coast to Split where we took a ferry to the island of Solta where one of our group was raised. We visited his family home where his lovely sister stills resides. What a great experience. Next we sailed to Korcula, an ancient city in a very strategic location along the coast. It very clean and quite beautiful, as was all of Croatia and Montenegro. The water of the Adriatic is so blue and the coastline just gorgeous!
The next port was Kotar, Montenegro – wow, set back in a fjiord like setting it was spectacular. We toured the historic old town then took a trip over the top of the mountains Budva which is another gorgeous resort area. We stopped for lunch at a wonderful restaurant on the beach and then returned to the ship. Great day!
On to the famous city of Dubrovnik. Again, spectacular with so much history and what great fortifications. We took another tour, ending up on top of the mountain for a great photo shoot of Dubrovnik and then another wonderful local lunch.
On to the lovely island town of Hvar where it was so clean and people so friendly you did not want to leave, but we still had a few more stops on the schedule. We stopped at Pula with its huge and still used colliseum. After a walk around the town, we sailed to Rovinj. This was a wonderful town with a huge church on top the town hill. We took a long walk and again found it very clean and the people very friendly.
It was a wonderful trip that I recommend to everyone who appreciates gorgeous scenery, clean and natural surroundings and wonderful people.
