In 12 days, we’ll be boarding the (dreaded) flight to London. Twelve days! I’m uncertain where the time has gone, and also how I’ll manage to finish our preparations in time. I’ll take the “things tend to work themselves out” approach for now. Below, for anyone who cares, is our itinerary, in brief: Friday, May … More The Itinerary: London, Dublin & Beyond
Lucky me. We’ve booked another trip across the Atlantic blue, and this time we’ll be gallivanting across England & Ireland with friends. I love the thought of adding (newbie pond-crosser) friends to what has become our annual adventure; it’s as if I’m lending my favorite book to a friend. Open it up. Read it. But take in … More My Favourite Pond
I’m typing from home sweet home, as we arrived back yesterday afternoon, but I will catch up on our last stop in Italy now. We hit the ground running in Rome after checking into our (sweet) hotel. It was a beautiful day to take in some ancient history, anyhow. So we taxi’ed to the Coloseeum, purchased … More Rome
I just woke up from a nap in one of the lounge chairs on our balcony, as did Aaron. It is a fairly good synopsis of our time in the town of Praiano, Italy, a tiny town situated on the side of a cliff that dives into the sparkly blue Mediterranean sea on the Amalfi … More Two Days in Praiano
Mount Vesuvius overlooks the unearthed ruins of Pompeii, a Roman town that was buried under the volcano’s ashes in A.D. 79. It wasn’t until the 1700s that the town was rediscovered, and it was since excavated out of around 15 feet of ash under which it was buried. We stopped at the ruins after a … More Pompeii, with Vesuvius Watching
Sigh, sigh, sigh. I typed an entire blog about our stay in Vernazza, and managed to lose the whole thing by accident. This makes me very sad, so here is an abbreviated version. Vernazza was beautiful. A small, quaint town – one of five towns making up the Cinqueterre – where the bulk of our … More Vernazza & the Cinqueterre
Ah, Florence. Here, the roads are paved with stone and squeeze between the terracotta-roofed buildings, most of which you can safely assume are hundreds of years old. Here, our hotel has tower we can scale to view the city. You pass many tourists while walking, and many residents too. There is endless history and art … More Firenze – Rain or Shine
We left Milan via its Central Station, a beautiful building that was apparently a creation of Mussolini’s, to head towards Venice. Boarding TrenItalia, I noted with sadness that we were sharing our train car with a large tour group of older Brits, and would be sharing our seating space with a couple from that group. … More Venice
It’s 8:30 a.m. in Venice. Aaron is still snoring next to me, but I woke up two hours ago at the first sign of daylight. I’m happy to have finally roused him enough to extract his laptop password so that I can update my imaginary audience on the details of our trip. We arrived in Venezia yesterday via … More Sleepless in Milano
Traveling is amazing, but flying is not. We landed in JFK, looked at the screen and noted that our flight was in Terminal 2. Where is Terminal 2? What terminal are we in now? There is no signage. We ask, and it turns out we have wander outside to find it. And then we get … More Here’s the Thing
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