"Live" Regal Princess, Oct 26 to Dec 2, Rome to Ft Lauderdale

[tml1230]

great pics and outstanding information ! ...we are following twice daily !...thanks for sharing!

[SSAtlantic]

I will be following and taking notes. A trip to Tuscany, then a Med cruise, followed by a TA is my bucket list retirement cruise. Enjoy your trip and stay safe. 

[Barbie075]

Looks like a wonderful spot in the Tuscan countryside.  Seems you are having rather nice weather too.  

Look forward more pictures of your adventure.

[LACruiser88]

Today, we spent a great day in Florence and visited the Duomo. It was very warm for the time of year, 82 f.  Definitely shorts weather.

 

We had lunch at Il Pesce at the upstairs food court in the Central Market.  This is a very high quality location with many food and beverage options.  We highly recommend Il Pesce for great seafood options!

 

 

Edited October 19, 2022 by LACruiser88

[LACruiser88]

Here are a few photos of where we are staying and one of our room.  The third photo is just outside of our room.

 

 

Edited October 20, 2022 by LACruiser88

[Molokai_Traveler]

10 hours ago, LACruiser88 said:

Today, we spent a great day in Florence and visited the Duomo. It was very warm for the time of year, 82 f.  Definitely shorts weather.

 

We had lunch at Il Pesce at the upstairs food court in the Central Market.  This is a very high quality location with many food and beverage options.  We highly recommend Il Pesce for great seafood options!

 

 

Have you tried Il Latini? 

[LACruiser88]

11 minutes ago, Molokai_Traveler said:

Have you tried Il Latini? 

No, in Florence?

[Molokai_Traveler]

58 minutes ago, LACruiser88 said:

No, in Florence?

For information and reservations:

reservations@latinifirenze.com

Tel. (+39) 055210916

Il Latini · Via dei Palchetti, 6R · 50123 Florence 

[LACruiser88]

2 minutes ago, Molokai_Traveler said:

For information and reservations:

reservations@latinifirenze.com

Tel. (+39) 055210916

Il Latini · Via dei Palchetti, 6R · 50123 Florence 

Thanks, we'll check it out.  We are going back to Florence on Sunday.

[Molokai_Traveler]

28 minutes ago, LACruiser88 said:

Thanks, we'll check it out.  We are going back to Florence on Sunday.

I recommend a reservation if you want to go 

[LACruiser88]

Another warm and sunny day!  We spent the day at Volterra and San Gimignano.  Tomorrow we go to Montalcino.

[loge23]

Lovely pix! Thanks for taking us along - we start in Madrid on Sunday.

See you onboard!

[debi56]

Great pictures, hope the weather stays like that for us when we also get into Madrid next week!

must be the greatest ice cream in the world according to the line up...LOL

Keep enjoying yourselves!!  

 

[chrysalis]

Our arrival in Kotor this morning 

[chrysalis]

We had an excellent meal at the Crown grill last night, with very good service even though we had a large table of 8.

 

Apparently the cut off for the MTP luncheon is just over 300 days.

 

Corfu Greece tomorrow.

 

Going to watch sailing out of kotor from the wakeview bar area prior to dinner.

 

Very few chairhogs it seems around main pools, and very attentive drink service. Next week we will try the retreat pool

 

All is well 

[coo359a2]

28 minutes ago, chrysalis said:

Our arrival in Kotor this morning 

Hoping for good weather on the 28th or the 11th.  God willing and the creek don't rise (and our legs hold out) we are planning on trying to walk up the steps on the hill.

[coo359a2]

6 minutes ago, chrysalis said:

 

 

Apparently the cut off for the MTP luncheon is just over 300 days.

 

 

That's a very low number.

[Anubi]

15 minutes ago, chrysalis said:

We had an excellent meal at the Crown grill last night, with very good service even though we had a large table of 8.

 

Apparently the cut off for the MTP luncheon is just over 300 days.

 

Corfu Greece tomorrow.

 

Going to watch sailing out of kotor from the wakeview bar area prior to dinner.

 

Very few chairhogs it seems around main pools, and very attentive drink service. Next week we will try the retreat pool

 

All is well 

Confused...where is the Wakeview Bar?  I couldn't find it on the deck plans.  I'm interested because Phil and I always take a bottle of wine out to the bar at the back of the ship on the last port to say goodbye to dry land for the sea days of the transatlantic.  🙂 

[chrysalis]

Maybe not the correct name on this particular ship but it is the open deck area on 16 aft of the buffet.

6 hours ago, Anubi said:

Confused...where is the Wakeview Bar?  I couldn't find it on the deck plans.  I'm interested because Phil and I always take a bottle of wine out to the bar at the back of the ship on the last port to say goodbye to dry land for the sea days of the transatlantic.  🙂 

 

[Anubi]

10 minutes ago, chrysalis said:

Maybe not the correct name on this particular ship but it is the open deck area on 16 aft of the buffet.

 

Thanks, got it.  That will be a great place for a sailaway.  🙂 

[LACruiser88]

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Edited October 21, 2022 by LACruiser88

[LACruiser88]

In November of 2019, we met the owner of the Uccelliera winery in Montalcino at the James Suckling "Top 100 Wines of Italy" event in LA.  We were originally going to visit the winery in 2020.  We all know what happened to 2020.

 

Today we finally met with Andrea and his lovely wife, Paola, at their winery.  After 4 hours of tasting thru 6 years of Brunello di Montalcino vintages, they made us feel like family.   Such lovely people and great wines!

[LACruiser88]

Today we spent the day in Siena.  It was a bit cooler and breezy today. 

 

On the way back "home" we stopped at the castle in Monteriggioni (the last two photos).  IMHO it was not worth the $2.50 parking fee.

[CruzinNoony]

I am really enjoying your review.  Thank you so much for taking the time to do it.  I'll be following along and wishing we were there with you!

[rspoerl]

Fantastic! We will be joining on the 17th after spending a few days in Rome.