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This is a fairly new tour (or at least a returned tour from years past) so I thought I'd post some information about it, having recently completed the tour.

I will do this presenting material distributed by the TDs throughout the tour - daily programs. This should provide a more detailed description of the tour than what you get on the website.

The first couple of days of this tour you stay in one of two hotels in Rome. The middle portion of the tour was aboard Ponant's Le Bougainville small ship - starting in Amalfi, Trapani, Palermo, Taormina, and Siracusa. For the last couple of days you stay at one of two hotels in Valletta, Malta.

There were just over 150 guests on this tour, so the entire Ponant ship was filled with Tauck guests. For the hotels roughly in Rome and Valletta the guests were split roughly 90 in one hotel and 60 in the other hotel. Three TDs were assigned to the hotels with 90 guests and two TDs were assigned to the hotels with 60 guests. In addition, there was a Ponant/Tauck Ship Liaison Director as well.

Here is the tour's map. Note that we boarded the ship in the Port of Rome as opposed to taking a high-speed train from Rome to Naples and boarding the ship there. You can see both of these options on the web depending on how you look at it.

Next I thought I'd post a pictures of our Tauck Tour Directors and Shipboard Liaison. As a whole, the TDs were very good. As is usually the case, different guests had their own favorites.

Now for the daily programs. The first couple of pictures capture the activities in Rome through the boarding of the Le Bougainville which occurred the afternoon of Day 3.

Each day on the ship a program of activities was provided in your cabin's mailbox (on the wall just outside you door). This program consisted of 4 pages.

I will post each days programs in subsequent posts