We hit Gold Status with Carnival - free drinks!

Back to Italy we go!

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May 10th 2013
Geo: 38.1158, 13.3598Today was our second (and last) sea day aboard the ship. The most exciting thing to happen was our decision to eat breakfast in the formal dining room where we met six other people with neat stories. We sat across from a couple from Australia, probably not even 25 years old yet, recently engaged, and had taken six months off from work to travel the world!! They had spent ... read more

Europe » Italy » Sicily

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more