Month: January 2025

The day before we boarded the Norwegian Viva in Ravenna, Italy, for a nine-night Mediterranean cruise in October 2024, we arrived in the city on a train from Venice. With an even free for activities, we decided to book a tour of Ravenna and set out on foot from our hotel to have dinner in […]

Located on Deck 17 of the Norwegian Viva, the Surfside Cafe is the buffet on the ship. While smaller than I think it should be, the food was very good, with a nice variety. In this vlog episode from our nine-night Mediterranean cruise on the Viva in October 2024, we’ve slipped into the buffet for […]

If you’re ever planning a Mediterranean cruise and Dubrovnik, Croatia, is listed as one of the port stops, that’s a can’t miss as far as we’re concerned. When the Norwegian Viva visited Dubrovnik in October 2024 during our nine-night Mediterranean cruise, we chose a Game of Thrones filming locations shore excursion, and it did not […]

For our Norwegian Viva shore excursion to Delos, Greece, in October 2024, we took a ferry boat from the Mykonos Cruise Dock over to the Mykonos Old Port, where tours to Delos are based. This boat ride was relatively smooth because it stayed close to the shore.

After a few days in Venice, Italy, before the start of our nine-night Mediterranean cruise on the Norwegian Viva in October 2024, it was time to head over to the Stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia train station and catch a train to Ferrara and then on to Ravenna. The station in Venice is right next […]