{"id":1149,"date":"2010-09-26T14:24:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T21:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2010-09-26T14:24:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T21:24:45","slug":"and-were-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/26\/and-were-back\/","title":{"rendered":"And we’re back."},"content":{"rendered":"

We left off with Rome…<\/p>\n

The cruise ship docked in Naples the next day: it’s a port city, so no shuttle buses to worry about. We had no agenda in Naples, other than to eat pizza.<\/p>\n

We walked around the city a bit, but mostly killed time until our lunch at Pizzeria Brandi<\/a>. They are the creator of Pizza Margharita, and that’s exactly what we had. We had planned a second lunch before leaving the city, but all the restaurants closed for the afternoon and we were foiled.<\/p>\n

Then, an at-sea day and the next day at Palma de Mallorca.<\/p>\n

I had been thinking of Palma as kind of just a place for them to stop the ship for the day, so I wasn’t expecting much. It ended up being one of the prettiest places we went the whole trip. The guide books said that it was a late-night party city and things didn’t really get started until late morning. We got off the boat at around 10:00, but everything except the occasional coffee shop was closed until noon or even a little later. Two notable finds: a cathedral with palm trees<\/a> (which was both beautiful and novel), and caf\u00c3\u00a9 bombon<\/a> (espresso and sweetened condensed milk in equal parts; look for it at your local Cafe Artigiano soon).<\/p>\n

Then we took an extra day in Barcelona before we made our way back.<\/p>\n

On the way back, we spent a few days at my parents’ place in Ontario. That was fairly uneventful, as a family gathering should be.<\/p>\n

All told, we were gone 25 days. That’s just about my limit for travelling: I’m glad to get back to my own bed. However, our bathroom is dirty, and I don’t think the maid is coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We left off with Rome… The cruise ship docked in Naples the next day: it’s a port city, so no shuttle buses to worry about. We had no agenda in Naples, other than to eat pizza. We walked around the city a bit, but mostly killed time until our lunch at Pizzeria Brandi. They are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}