...so good to complete 30th anniversary cruise

Just complete the Celebrity Holy Land cruise from 2 Nov to 18 Nov 2012. We started from Rome, then to Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Greece and finally back to Italy (Rome). It was a good cruise as it knocked off many items from our bucket list including pyramids, wailing wall (Jerusalem), Sea of Galilee, Jordan River (where John baptized Jesus), Ephesus, Capri, Sicily (Acropolis), Naples and Rome (Vatican City, Forum, Colosseum).

We also managed to squeeze in a ride on the Segway around Rome which was really fun. Hope to have individual entries for each location soon.

So good to continue enjoying retirement ... must do all the holidays before we get too old / unfit for all these. The cruise was good - good food, good company (we met an American couple that we really got along well with), good sight seeing (see above) but it was really tiring. Many of the shore excursions were long (as long as 9 hours) and lots of walking. Average we were walking 5 km on uneven roads.

Here is a video clip of the cruise highlights