Today we arrived in Trieste.
The reason that we are in port here is because Venice which is 1½ hours away no longer allows ship our size to dock there. What a wonderful experience that was arriving right at the city, sailing down the Grand Canal before docking – but no longer.
Some took tours to Venice; however, since we have been there
before, including a week last time, we decided to stay in Trieste.
This is a very medium size city (230,000) with a great Old City area.
It is also a huge industrial port so they do not let you
walk off the ship into the port. In
fact, if took the shuttle bus about 15 minutes to reach a drop-off point at the
edge of the Old City.
From there we walked about an hour to reach the center of
the Old City and our guide for the next 3 hours.
We had a private walking tour with our guide and it was a
lot of fun and very informative. Will we
remember all he mentioned, probably not but it was fun.
After the tour, we went to a great canal front restaurant
and had lunch.
Then we walked again for an hour to get to our shuttle and
back to the ship.
The ship was so far away because there was a massive waterfront
festival going on that prevented our ship from docking right in town. Tomorrow there will be sailing completion and
the crowds will be even bigger. At the start of our walk, we were down by the
festival and two of the biggest lines were for St. Louis Ribs and Smashburgers!!
5 ½ miles of walking today!
The show was a musical with songs from several counties and
it was pretty good.
Dinner was, as usual very good and then we went to the casino
to finish out the evening.
Tomorrow is a day at sea.
Then we received news tonight That because a Tugboat and
Salvage Crew union that we must enter the Port of Piraeus (Gateway to Athens)
before 11:00pm on October 13 and remain in port until the strike is over at
midnight on October 14.
This means that we will not be stopping at Kusanagi and
Katakolon. Fortunately, we have been to
both of those stops and were not looking to be there anyway.
That’s all for now and our next entry will be tomorrow
night.
Hope all is well back home.
Hugs to our family and friends from Barb and Ed
