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It's amazing to learn all this history and then go to visit the locations you read about. It was always a dream of mine to see the Mediterranean.
I'm also not wealthy so the traveling we did to these places was always on a very tight small budget.
Go to a website called vacationstogo.com .... once there register a basic account with just an email so that you can link to a page on their site called "30 day ticker" where you'll find a huge listing of discounted cruises from everywhere in the world, including the Mediterranean.
With airlines, last minute flights are discounted by the last few days or a week before they leave. Cruises are discounted a month or two before they leave because the companies want to fill the boat even if people are paying the bare minimum. And most people are not willing to risk booking a cruise within 30 days because they have to plan for it. We never cared and just booked whatever we could find.
The two week cruise we were on to visit Santorini started in Rome and I think we paid about $500-$600 CAD for the all inclusive trip. We met other Canadians on the same trip that had booked a year ahead and paid $10,000!!
Last minute prices for cruises, I wouldn't go any other way.