Venice

 We disembarked in Venice but as we knew it was too late to catch our flight back home, we had booked a hotel to overnight there. 

This

 is the only day Kadi spent some time with us. 

For as she is a super chef in New York, so is always off on some tour learning to cook new, local dishes at every port.

We 

got a conveniently located hotel called Belstay in the town of Mestre where the cruise port from which we disembarked is located and only fifteen minutes from the airport.

As soon as we checked in, we took a cab into town, hung around, took lots of pictures and ate Italian food.

Here are some of the pics.

It was a great eleven day cruise. Interesting ports of call in Europe/Africa, wonderful entertainment and tasty regional food always available.

 Best of all was that my travel group synced most of the time. 

L-r: Kadi, Michelle, Joan, Sonja, Camille.

That's important, for the Jamaican saying: "si mi but nuh lib wid mi" is often prophetic.😩

Tomorrow morning it's back to the miserable USA with their ridiculous and destabilizing tariffs 😡.

I need to win the lottery so I can go on a permanent cruise.😊

Sonja's last look at Venice.❤️

Reminder to myself. Never fly Air Europa again😡

MSC entertainment

The MSC entertainment has been really enjoyable on this Mediterranean cruise.

Most have been cabaret but there have also been some outstanding individual performances.

I give them overall a 4.5 star rating as I did not find the pianist all that entertaining.

 But the others, definitely 5 plus, Especially the tenor Giovanni Sacca. 

What a voice.

And the African acrobats were absolutely perfect.

Great performances MSC.

Bari, italy

Bari is in southern Italy but it was as cold as northern Alaska, although the flowers were saying it's spring.

 

It got quite sunny later and warmed up a bit but because it's really a port city, that sea breeze kept coming up and freezing us.😡

Anyway I never saw any interesting sight-seeing tours for this area, so we just took a bus into town and window shopped.

Downtown is like most Italian cities, same kind of architecture, narrow cobble-stoned walkways, apartments upstairs behind huge wooden doors and of course, churches.

Behind these huge doors are lobbies to several apartments.

Sight of spring everywhere except in the temperature 

This is a garage in what looks like an apartment!

The streets were fairly crowded despite the weather.

Trying out Italian gelato aka ice cream cone

It's not the type of weather to be outside, so we went back to the ship did some yoga and rested till dinner time.

Michelle is our yoga instructor.

A struggling student

Sonja did yoga too but volunteered to be the photographer 😁, hence she is missing in the pics.