geauxpurple

The voice of reason.

There was a thread on here a couple of weeks ago about the HPL assassination. This book was talked about. I haven’t read it yet but it is next on my list.

RIP
He was instrumental in helping Dale Brown build LSU basketball into a powerhouse. Rudy was the first piece of the puzzle.

Do you think his agent has him wearing this to attract the attention of the Texas Tech NIL people?

What was the Dow at when he coined the term irrational exuberance?

Congrtaulations and enjoy the celebration but remember, don't drink and drive.

We did not get the Viking air package this time because we booked our own pre and post cruise stays and would have been paying for things like airport transfers that we would not use. We have gotten the air package in the past and I will say that Viking does an excellent job with it.

Nole Man covered the excursions very well. I think the only extra excursion I took was the climb up Acropolis Hill to the Parthenon and the Plaka District. The other ones were the free ones.
My favorites were the ride to Oia on Santorini, Olympia and Dubrovnik.

ETA Correction.
Forget what I originally said about the stateroom. I was confusing this with the longship river cruises we have been on.
On the ocean cruise we stayed in cabin 3033 which had a full balcony. Any of the staterooms with balconies are fine.

We took the Viking Empires of the Mediterranean cruise.
It started with an overnight in Athens, then went to Santorini, Olympia and Corfu in Greece. Then it went up the Adriatic to Kotor in Montenegro , then two stops in Croatia, Dubrovnik and Zadar. Finally it was Kotor in Slovenia before ending in Venice.
Before the cruise we spent a few days on the Greek island of Hydra, then spent a few days in Venice post cruise.
I had a short report on here at the time.

This was a great itinerary.
The scenery was beautiful and the ports were interesting and often the ship would dock right in or not far from where you would want to go which is not always the case with Mediterranean ocean cruises.

Flag Castlevetrano oil from Sicily that Dorignac’s is the distributor of now.

Sometimes we get a can shipped in from a grower we know in Tuscany.

The good stuff has become ridiculously expensive.

That was a lot of getting from place to place.

There are several comments about Slovenia on here. We just got back from a cruise that stopped in Koper, Slovenia. Nice place with beautiful scenery and Venetian style architecture. And yes, the people are friendly and most of them speak English.

The Koper stop was sandwiched between stops in Dubrovnik and Venice which were incredible.