Mauimary Beyond Transatlantic B2B &Italy Croatia, Montenegro Two Weeks land trip West Coast Portugal.

[Lastdance]

I am very interested in your Portugal trip, as we are also on both cruises, but not doing a TA to Portugal until 2025, staying in the southern region.  However, we were doing Portugal after theses cruises, but Since I found the TA to Lisboa, changed to Amalfi Coast and staying in Sorrento!

Edited May 8, 2023 by Lastdance

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Very handy for this ferry crossing our wake that we had slowed down to let the pilot boat catch up to retrieve the Pilot. His ride was a little less bumpy. Sure those passengers were 😃 about that. 
These photos were all taken from our sunset veranda. We decided to move from inside back to our own room.  We also wanted our sweatshirts. 

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Lastdance We are flying from Rome to Lisbon to begin our land trip after staying in Rome for a night. It will be nice to have Segment 3 for a few weeks before flying home. 

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Celebrity Beyond’s theatre production was called  “Arte” which combined some pretty cool visual effects, dance and some aerial artists.  We saw this show for the second time but this time we moved down to the floor from the balcony.   We felt we could see everything on the stage so much better and see the expression on the singers and dancers faces.   The two of us really like this show. The music is upbeat and fun. 

I take so many photos it’s hard to narrow them down. I like to give a sample without boring everyone.  
Cia,

Mary😎

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Tue (May9).  We got up early this am so we had time to enjoy our Al Bacio cappuccino and  catch up with family on the West Coast USA via text. We then decided to grab a few bites at Oceanview before it got busy.  
 

We wanted to be outside on deck as we made our way into Dubrovnik so we went side to side on deck 15 to get some photos. 

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We were so excited to be able to get out there and explore Old Dubrovnik.  We had this Port canceled in 2008 and we’re so disappointed.  
We just kind of walked around in awe like a kid in a candy store exploring all the streets, side streets.  The Old Town is encircled with massive stone walls.  
Dubrovnik became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1979.  It is a stunning city and has been described as the “Pearl of the Adriatic”.  We feel very grateful to finally be here. 
 

This is where our DIY tour began.  There were definitely a lot of Celebrity walking tours happening. We have followed the white circle around on occasion but generally get frustrated. I’m know we miss a lot of detail but that’s just us so we tend to see what we can. 

 

 

Love side streets   Found some fun restaurants but we were not hungry so we moved along. 

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There were all kind of boat tours going out and the ticket folks were trying to entice.  Tempting as we love being on smaller boats but seeing as we just walked off a ship and we already spent 10 days at sea we passed on by. The water was incredibly clear. 
There was a lady sitting on some steps near here that lead down to the water catching small fish for the stray cats. 

We found a nice restaurant which was not crowded yet as it was a little early so we decided to sit down and relax and enjoy a bite. DH enjoyed a Croatian beer with his lunch and I had an ice tea.  We like to enjoy a sit back and relax and just enjoy the ambience of the beautiful view.  As a bonus you can count on nice restrooms too😆

 

Remember the lady I mentioned who was fishing for small fish well here’s one happy cat 🐈‍⬛ having fresh catch of the day!  

 

 

 

Edited May 9, 2023 by mauimary

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My favorite photo. If you love stairs this city is your place. Many areas like this and ones with more steps. 
 

A pair of bookends we found. Love how they picked a wine shop for their window to nap. Sounds good to me!

 

 

 

 

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St Blaise Catholic Church. So beautiful quiet and peaceful inside. St Blaise was a physician and a bishop. He is the patron saint of throat healers and ENT illnesses. 

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Wednesday (May 10) Early arrival into Kotor.  We wanted to be outside so started on our balcony before moving up top!  Such an absolutely stunning setting. 

 

 

 

Loved this little Church up on the mountainside.  
 

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We took an early tender into Kotor which puts you right into town.  Decided to do the Hop On Hop Off Bus. Why not for only only 25£ each.  Not too many places to hope off. Well actually one for us. The drive is beautiful along the shoreline to a town called Perast.  Described in the HOHO bus brochure as a “piece of Venice” that floated down the Adriatic”. Here for an additional 5£ we could take a boat ride over to one of two islands. Not sure what the Island is called. On it is a quaint little church (Our Lady of the Rocks). We were to be here for about 30 min before our boat came to get us but it was closer to an hour. 

 

 

 

 

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I have more photos yet to come. I’m currently having issues trying to upload them. I go through the exact same steps as I did for the ones above and they come up blank!! What am I doing wrong and suppose to be doing. Quite frustrating when I have the time to do it. 

[NBliving]

You have motivated me to look at booking an Italy, Croatia and Montenegro cruise! I had forgotten we had one booked in May of 2020 which of course was cancelled.  Your photos are beautiful!  It looks like we would definitely want a good balcony view for the arrivals into port!

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Our first stop on the HOHO Bus was a little town called Perast (sounds kinda like Paris) where we took a small boat over to an Island called Lady of the Rocks.  It’s a man made Island with a beautiful small Church. 
 

 

Loved the pretty blue dome of the church 

 

I stood around awhile and these guys did not move so they became part of my photo. 

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Mauimary &DH Loving this wonderful itinerary and the chance for us to experience some new and beautiful places. 

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I am back. I have not given up. CC was giving me so much trouble trying to post photos and logging me out of iMessage. Every time the Apple folks reset it my CC would get messed up. There were so many folks having issues with Starlink there were constant lines. I finally decided to wait until we got off in Rome. 
 

So here goes.  Back to Kotor Montenegro. 
After we returned from our HOHO bus we walked around Kotor. It was here we ran into the vacationing Capt Kate as she was returning from her climb up all the stairs to the mountain top. 
 

 

She’s an early bird off on the first tender to climb the stairs to the top of the mountain in the photo below. 

 

Note this Church halfway up this mountain 

 

We loved wandering all the side streets 

 

We had a cat that looked just like this one. These cats are well fed.  Capt Kate took some of Bugs snacks to treat them with her 

 

 

 

 

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A person has to eat and experience the local restaurants before heading back to the ship. 

 

Marriage of beer and margarita describes our lunch choice. The margarita was quite strong and I could only drink half of it. 

 

 

Cool clock tower. 

 

Home away from home. 

 

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One of three secret Naval tunnels hidden inside Montenegro Bay of Kotor that were used to hide submarines from enemy ships and airplanes.  (We saw two of them as we were leaving the bay). These camouflage moorings are hidden along the coastline of Montenegro. This one was close to the entrance. 
 

this is where we were. Kotor is below Debrota on this Google Map. 

 

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Thur (May 11)  this day we were in Korfu Greece.  This was another beauty of a Port.  We cont. on our own DIY with the help of the HOHO bus.  This is a good overall view and a chance to use the bus for transportation so we did not have to use a cab. City bus also can be used but more work for us. 

Pretty newer homes 

 

lush yards 

 

Some Ruins
 

 

beautiful trees. Yard needs some trimming!  

 

Angel’s trumpet. 

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Map of Old Town Corfu 

Entrance to Old Corfu 

Fun streets to loose yourself and wander 

Would you believe these are all purses.  I like the piano one. 

 

 

another lovely street 

[LouChamp]

Aloha.  We have been blessed to have visited the ports you are sailing to and have sailed to. They are magnificent places and also love Celebrity especially in the Mediterranean.  Thank you for sharing and enjoy!

[jimbri]

Great review and photos

[Norwaylady]

Great👍🏻🤩

 

 

[Bugsy1966]

On 5/8/2023 at 5:20 PM, Lastdance said:

I am very interested in your Portugal trip, as we are also on both cruises, but not doing a TA to Portugal until 2025, staying in the southern region.  However, we were doing Portugal after theses cruises, but Since I found the TA to Lisboa, changed to Amalfi Coast and staying in Sorrento!

 

Edited May 16, 2023 by Bugsy1966
Wrong town!