The family’s excitement is bubbling as we touched down on Venice Marco Polo airport with the faint view of Venice and its water canals in the distance and it did not disappoint! There is only 1 Venezia with its unique canal structures and gondola …

May 4, 2007. Toronto, Canada. Finally, I set off to Athens for a 23 day trip, alone. Quite often, I had friends asking me the similar questions, "Backpacking? Greece? Turkey? Why?" And quite often, I felt hesitant to answer. "The freedom . …

Finally, after hundreds of hours of research and planning, we set off for Paris, Athens, Zakynthos, Santorini, and Rome. Just to let you in on how I ended up planning this whole crazy trip... About 11 months ago we decided to spend the rest …

Nate and I arrived in London Gatwick Airport, totally jet lagged, around 11 AM. We took the Gatwick Express to Victoria Station. It was quite expensive but very convient. When we got to Victoria we took out some cash and headed to our hotel …

Steve, Alice and I (Michelle) took a fabulous 25 day trip to Greece ! We planned the trip so that we would split our time between an islands vacation and time to spend with Steve and Alice’s family who live in Greece . Our flight landed in Athens …

Sun Venice, Italy -- --MonVenice, Italy -- 4:00 pmTueDubrovnik, Croatia 9:00 am 6:00 pmWedAt Sea -- --ThuPiraeus (Athens), Greece 7:00 am 7:00 pmFriKusadasi (Ephesus), Turkey 7:00 am --SatKusadasi (Ephesus), Turkey -- 4:00 pmSunAt Sea -- --MonNaples …

We are a group of 4 women - 2 friends and 2 daughters, who like to travel. But the men don't. One of us is a single woman, and has gotten the others to travel. We all have different travel styles, some like to see everything, while some want …

Finally, We got to Europe and our first stop is Athens, Greece. Our is hotel, Hotel Rio, is one of the finest in all of Athens. It has Wireless Internet Access, phones, TV's, and a balcony. We checked as fast as we could, so we go see all the …

Didn’t make it to bed as everything took a lot more time than I budgeted; including getting a compass and a decent bag for Michael, which entailed a trip to Toyku Hands. So I stayed up all night alternately packing and futzing around on the compu …

http://www.travelplan.it/venice_guide_itineraries_weekend.htm " First day Our itinerary starts in the early morning from the Santa Croce sestiere, which is in the north west part of Venice. The eastern part of the sestiere, which is old and typic …