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9 Plan for a lot of walking…and a the ocean. It’s just flat. That is not true in
lot of hills.
Europe so expect to see hills and moun-
The first time I visited the Mediter-
tains.
ranean Sea, the thing that surprised
me the most was the mountains that sur- Expect that many of the best places to vis-
rounded the beach. it in the port cities will involve you walk-
ing up those hills. And even if the terrain
Here on the eastern coast of the United is flat, you’re still going to do a lot of walk-
States both the Gulf of Mexico and the ing. Just think of it as a way to work off
Atlantic have no elevation anywhere near the calories from the buffet.
10 Plan, but be flexible. quick research in my guide books and on-
line while we still had service and came up
Everything is not going to go
exactly as planned. No mat-
with some ideas of what to do. It ended
ter how well you plan and no
matter how many Mediterranean cruise up being one of my favorite ports because
it was manageable and felt like a real Ital-
tips you read, there will be a hiccup some- ian town instead of the big tourist cities!
where.
Expect things may not go exactly as
We thought we were docking in Naples planned due to weather or other factors
for one of our ports and ended up in outside of the cruise line’s control.
Salerno. Once we found out I did some
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