Little update

Well the boat is almost empty again as the guests are getting ready to leave. We are currently in Trieste, Italy. We will be staying here for a week or so before heading back to Croatia. Its been a pretty busy few weeks and we are looking forward to some down time. We had a day off for Easter and the captain gave a little Easter sermon for the crew and guests. Other than that nothing much is new or has changed. Hope everyone had a great Easter!
Andrew

Hrvatska (Croatia)

We are currently in Croatia. The guests are on for about another week and today Bethany and I will have some time to explore, take some pictures, and just relax. We haven't seen to much yet but Croatia seems like a beautiful county and it's no wonder why it is tourist destination. Everything is going well and we are enjoying the travels, sites, and guests. It looks like we will be here for a couple weeks once the guests leave before heading south. Hope everyone is well. (Sorry for the lacking blog, not much new, yet).
Andrew

Venice!

Well folks we finally made it to Venice. A month and a half and nearly 900 nautical miles later and we are sitting just a minute walk from St. Mark's Square. We arrived a few days ago and have had a chance to walk the narrow street-ways and crossed some of the 409 bridges in the city. Venice is truly a city by water. No cars, no bikes, just boats and walkers. Everything is transported by boat, food, garbage, police, ambulance, taxi, etc. The narrow canals are so unique (some of our pictures show everyday life here). One draw back that I have found here is that there are so many people! I have heard more English spoken here then my whole time in Italy. But if one can get past the mass of people, it truly is a great city. One thing we would like to do before we leave is go on a gondola ride, we still have time so we may fit it in ;) Since it is a tourist destination everything is a little more spendy. My precious cappuccinos run about 4.5 euros so I have to get them sparingly, (I don't think my mother-in-law would let that fly in her old coffee shop ;) We still have a few more days here so we will probably get some more site seeing in. Hope you enjoy the new pictures!
Andrew 

San Marino

So we took a trip to the Republic of San Marino yesterday. It is an independent country landlocked by Italy. It was about an hour drive from Fano, which we are staying at now. The city was really neat and over looked the Italian country. The city had a med-evil feel but updated to meet modern needs. The city had 3 old castles, the whole city was duty free and reminded me of an Indian reservation. They could sell weapons such as knives, and guns that weren't legal to sell in Italy and also everything was tax free. The new pictures on Flickr show the land scape and us just having fun! Hope you enjoy, does any one even read this?
Andrew