More Venice Hotels

Here are the Venice hotels I found from Karen Brown that sounded good: Hotel Locanda Vivaldi; Hotel Metropole. These sound like they are right near each other.

Hotel Flora - Venice

This is a hotel in both Karen Brown's book and Eyewittness Travel Guides. I looked at the prices and they seemed reasonable.

Venice Hotels: The Saturnia Italy

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Nice

The most famous market of Nice is the flower market and main market on the Cours Saleya in the old town .

On Mondays, (when we will be there) the Cours Saleya has a large flea market, the Marché a la Brocante et Antiquités. In the picture the market is the street with the colorful awnings (2 rows from the beach). It ends at the Ville Matisse.

Photo from Flickr user Tony M.

I would like to get to the town of Nice and just walk around. Here is a link to instructions on how to take the train from Villefranche to Nice. Sounds like a good way to do it! kay t 12/6/07

Istanbul

I can't believe we are doing this! I found a great site with what to see in Istanbul if all you have is one day, click here.

The Wikipedia article on Istanbul (click here) is pretty interesting, and not too detailed or just touristy. One of the "must see" sights is the Blue Mosque which I borrowed a picture of.

Note: Here is another Istanbul tour site, Ekol. They also do Athens, I think.

More Shore Excursions

Here is a link to the shore excursions on Celebrity:

http://tinyurl.com/24ey6u

I hope this works, it was a search result. The Celebrity shore excursions in general are at:

http://www.celebritycruises.com/plancruise/shoreExcursions/home.do;jsessionid=0000O2vmG6MPelQNWtaVqykswgn:12hdebebp

have fun.