We’re left Spain for Italy. Perhaps I’m just jaded, but everything seems more expensive and the train system is much worse. After our flight to Rome, we took a train to Civitavecchia, which houses the Port of Rome.

After arriving, we walked about a mile to an English gastropub, which served some excellent and affordable Italian food and wine.

Tomorrow, we are starting a cruise of Turkey and Greece aboard the Costa Deliziosa. We are worried that life aboard a Costa ship will not be as good as aboard an American cruise line (mostly because the primary language will be Italian).