{"id":16029,"date":"2026-04-05T06:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=16029"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:46:17","slug":"carnival-venezia-2-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/05\/carnival-venezia-2-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Venezia 2 preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been very busy of late doing mostly not-very-fun things. And I certainly haven&#8217;t been doing much travel which is why I have been posting only my book reports. But Marlene and I do have another cruise coming up, at the end of April. One week on the <em>Carnival Venezia<\/em>. This will be our second <em>Venezia <\/em>cruise. It is one of our favorite Carnival ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We get three ports on this cruise: Grand Turk, San Juan and St Thomas. We have been to all of them before, but not very often. It will be somewhat more interesting than a western Caribbean itinerary, but, as always, the main reason to go is the ship itself. We always have fun on board the ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will be traveling with friends this time &#8211; Paul and Carol, a married couple from Alabama who used to live in Ft Myers. We haven&#8217;t seen them since they left last year, so it will be nice catching up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been very busy of late doing mostly not-very-fun things. And I certainly haven&#8217;t been doing much travel which is why I have been posting only my book reports. But Marlene and I do have another cruise coming up, at the end of April. One week on the Carnival Venezia. This will be our &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/05\/carnival-venezia-2-preview\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-4ax","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16031,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16029\/revisions\/16031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}