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Kotor, Montenegro

Very pretty town. Walked to the fort. Long way up but worth it. Tenders to the harbour. And old town is just across the road from the harbour. No need to book excursion. Well worth a visit.

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Beautiful old town. We got a taxi from the port to the old town, the taxi took euros €20. We had a walk around the old town a ice cream and went back to the ship. Fabulous port, not to be missed.

Santorini, Greece

Spectacular views from Oia and Fira. We decided when we got to Fira that we would go on a excursion with one of the promotors on the harbour. This included a boat to Oia and a bus from the harbour at Oia to the town and then a bus back to Fira. We were waiting on the bus for 45 minuets. Lots of scrabbling to get on the bus and then no seats. When we got to Oia we only had 30-60 minutes to explore as we had to get back to the ship. The car park was like a cattle market one poor man trying to manage a lot at panicking people. People pushing in front of others and going around the back of the bus to get on first and pushing family on I order to get all of their family on the bus, total nightmare. Spoilt the whole day. The fact that there were four cruise ships in port was the main reason for this I think. I would probably recommend going with cruise line for this day, especially if port is busy. Breathtaking place worth a visit on quieter days. Towns are small and struggle with large volumes of people. We walked down the steps past the donkeys in Fira, back to the tender. The queue for the cable car was hours long.