Trip Through Italy and the Mediterranean

Seeing Italy Up Close and Personally

​We recently returned from a 36-day trip where we spent 21 days riding the trains in Italy to visit:

•  Zurich
• Como
• Milan
• Genoa
• Cinque Terre
• Florence
• Naples
• Rome

 
Then we boarded a ship (the 8-month-old Explorer Journeys Explora 2) at Civitavecchia that took us on a 14-day cruise through the Mediterranean to visit lots of exciting locations to include:

• Naples (again)
• Trapani, Sicily
• Tunis
• Carloforte, Sardinia
• Palma de Mallorca
• Barcelona
• St Tropez (to include Port Grimaud and Grimaud)
• Monte Carlo (to include Nice and Eze)
• Ajaccio, Corsica
• Livorno (to include Florence again and Pisa)
• Porto Cervo, Sardinia

 
Here’s a map of what our trip looked like:

During our trip we traveled over 2,900 miles - riding the trains in Italy and on the Explora 2 cruise ship. We also hiked over 190 miles - averaging 5 1/2 miles each day. During the first 17 days – before we arrived in Rome or boarded the ship - we walked an average of almost 8 miles a day.
 
We had wonderful and interesting food along the way. But best of all we had good company and got to see so many of the “Classic” Roman and Greek sights up close and in person. It was another "trip of a lifetime". 
 
As always, we took thousands of photos of the museums, artwork, cathedrals, cities, monuments, vistas, and nature that we managed to see. – so, we’ll be editing and posting them as soon as our schedule lets us get around to it. ​Here are a few teaser photos to give you a brief overview of some of the sights we saw until we get around to posting the photos from each location on our Adventures page:​ (click on any photo to start the slideshow)