My wife and I enjoy travelling to new countries to experience how other cultures live and function - we have been to most European countries, Turkey, South America, China & Hong Kong, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Australia & New Zealand. The Middle East is next, for 3 weeks in May 2017. We decide where we want to go and then decide how - sometimes it is via a river cruise or an ocean cruise, or sometimes it is on a bus tour. You can't see much of Italy, Greece and Turkey via cruise ship,. so we took guided bus tours!