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I've just found a couple of fabulous itineraries on Costa Cruises. Now, I don't really know much about them, except that it is a European company. But if I'd known about these options last year when we went to Greece, I think I would have gone with either the Greece/Croatia Cruise or the Croatia/Greece/Turkey one (this one is really great - stops in Dubrovnik and Istanbul). The latter is only $800 or so per person for August of this year! Highly reccommend.

http://www.costacruise.com/B2C/USA/Shopping/Month/CruiseList.htm?&Period=200808&Macro=EAST+MEDITERRANEAN&VCountry=CROE&Nav=1

Allow me to introduce you to the cause for my recent disappearance. Before you say, "why that's only a cellphone!" let me tell you how much more it is than that. It is a symbol of change and new tidings, it is a statement of coolness, it is....it is an emotional investment.

I am notoriously monogamous, as some of you may know. I only ever dated one guy, and married the schmuck. It took me a while to give up Rachael Ray for Martha Stewart as my favorite cooking celebrity. I drove my 1998 Beetle into the ground (it literally begged to be retired the day we sold it - the engine died that morning). And more importantly, I had been carrying around the cellphone I bought in 1999/2000, my very first, paid with my very own money.

So here's an interesting read, albeit from a completely unreliable source. But I can't imagine it will be all incorrect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_passport