We would hands down do the Venice to Istanbul. Our favorite ports from last week's cruise and Venice is an overall favorite period. Only port we did not visit was Kotor. Dubrovnik and Santorini were magnificient. In Kusadasi we went to Ephasis and to the infamous carpet making demonstration . Rhodes was no big whoop - we went to Ancient Lindos and the at historical site we had planned to see, there was a strike. There is a walled city there but too hot to venture to after Lindos.Actually, we got lucky even in Athens, all the historical sites in Greece were on strike for several weeks in a row with all of them closed every Sunday for a month.