Roma, Italia: Known in English as Rome. The 30 day cruise is completed, it was perhaps a few days too long. I was beginning to burn out on cabin showers where the curtain sticks to your back, and the other downsides of living in roughly 200 sq. ft. As the other DrC tells people, we spent many summers doing that in a class C motorhome, so we"re used to it. We can still get tired of it, and do.
We fly out for home tomorrow morning, after a night in an airport Marriott. Flying back to SF is a very long day, as we chase the sun around the globe and gain many hours. I was surprised when I asked if we had a time change between Alexandria and Rome and found the answer was, of all things, no.
Through this entire cruise we had calm water, barely a wave anywhere..No complaints, but you tend to expect some tipsy days - not this trip. Honestly, we had more roughness flying SF to Tokyo than we had sailing from Singapore to Rome.
As we drove from port at Civitivecchia to Rome airport we remarked once again how much this terrain resembles coastal California. No wonder many Italians immigrated to CA. It required little climatic or scenic adjustment; it looked like home.
