9-night DCL Mediterranean with Greek Isles cruise - Days 1 and 2: Travel and Rome

Travel and Rome This summer’s adventure brings us back to the Mediterranean with a visits to Italy and Greece. We actually had this trip booked for summer 2020 (we all know how that turned out). Then we booked it again 2021 (nope) and then again in 2022 (could have happened, but we opted to stay on this side of the pond for a Southern Caribbean cruise). In 2023 we went to Iceland/Norway/France instead and in 2024 we went to California and Hawaii (which is what we had originally planned on for 2021, actually). So when it came time to plan summer 2025 travel, we decided to give it another go. And this time we made it! Our flights were completely uneventful (other than the fact that none of us slept particularly well, but that’s not super unusual). We left our house at 10:15 AM on Tuesday, arrived at the Austin airport at 10:45 AM, departed on time for Dallas at 12:30 PM and successfully made our connection from Dallas at 2:40 PM to Rome. Our flight arrived in Rome at around 8 ...