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Here Are Direct Links To The 13 Movies Of The Trip So You Can Choose What You Want To See. 1. Athens https://youtu.be/pZyAWNnhd3g 2. Greece Ground With Oracle Of Delphi & Thermopylae https://youtu.be/GcWjxcz2Zi0 3. Meteora https://youtu.be/mj6CAXCfalo 4. Crystal Cruise Greek Island Cruise. https://youtu.be/HRuVrSPDf_0 5. Corinth Canal Crossing https://youtu.be/M3jAsAKEHh8 6. Florence https://youtu.be/bqoN1aEofgI 7. Cascate Del Mulino Travertine Hot-Springs https://youtu.be/87AntXcPMyQ 8. Leaning Tower Of Pisa https://youtu.be/ECWtOc4_E14 9. Carrara Marble Quarries https://youtu.be/GuWbvgQ5F8I 10. Cinque Terre Seaside Villages https://youtu.be/nsL39HSZKDc 11. Dubai https://youtu.be/sUI1lkY1mU4 12 Burj Al Arab 7 Star Hotel https://youtu.be/qFaRPlCiwd8 13. Abu Dhabi https://youtu.be/DoyvoKfKXa0 It may seem odd to cover Greece, Italy & Dubai in one trip. But the trip starts and ends with a really long 14-16 hour flight which is both expensive and hard to acclimate to. So, by combining many of our bucket list destinations, it actually made it easier. We've always wanted to see Dubai's wondrous buildings. The documentaries on how they were built are fascinating (check YouTube). Add the most stunning hotel in the world on its own man-made island, the Burg Al Arab (another YouTube Documentary) and it's irresistible. Add Abu Dhabi (what a great name) and we just had to go. Then add the famed Greek Islands including Mykonos, Santorini and Crete and you can't miss them. But I've always wanted to see the Acropolis in Athens, the Oracle at Delphi up north and Meteora where the monasteries are on the top huge monolithic pillars that you probably saw in the James Bond movie, "For Your Eyes Only". Wow. Greece has so much history, it's awesome. And in Italy, the famed museums of Florence are a bucket list item all by themselves. To see the Stature of David and how the Medici Family lived will blow you away. Plus I love Travertine Mineral hot-springs so we were off on a car trip to Cascate Del Mulino where I was able to get right into the hot springs, unlike at Yellowstone where I was kept at a distance. Then a chance to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa (I never knew it was a bell tower). It really does lean. Then onto a Carrara Marble Quarry where the whole mountain is marble. I'll never look at the few marble tiles we have the same way again. And the Cinque Terre cities built right into the cliff-like canyons along the Italian coast are so picturesque. And the ferries we took to get to them were so much fun. And we ended up in Bologna which turned out to be a treasure-trove of cathedrals and squares. Finally we were off to Dubai where all my dreams were realized. It's even more exciting than I'd pictured. And the Burg Al Arab 7 star hotel, well check out my video. Our room/suite we lucked into was more like a lobby than many hotel lobbies we've been in. And the city's buildings and people will blow you away. Abu Dhabi, if anything was even more impressive than Dubai. It's all new. It's all architecturally phenomenal and finally a visit to the Grand Mosque is an experience not to be missed. It's so painstakingly created with every detail just perfect that it will blow you away with its great beauty. A fitting end to an unreliably wonderful bucket list trip. And finally the 16 hour flight home on Emirates air was a wonder. We've never seen such luxury from the seats to a real bar people stood around to a working fountain to bathrooms with showers. Wow, wish we could live like this for real. What a wonderful experience this trip was.