2012 – A Tuscan Wedding (no it’s not ours)
We haven’t gone to many weddings, a few family members and an occasional friend but between the two of us they probably add up to less than ten. This is …
2012 – Bergamo Alta in Lombardy, Italy
Our visit to Bergamo was more or less a last minute decision thanks to United Airline. We had a pre-paid non-refundable two night booking in Torino. It would have been …
2011 – London; Sloane Square and Remembrance day
It’s an easy 2.5hr flight from Rome to London. Just make sure you get to the airport early enough to go through passport control. Yes, even though the UK is …
2011 – Rome, the Monti, Sant’Angelo and Palazzo Colonna
We’re staying in a great apartment with a long terrace overlooking the Coliseum, I mean literally overlooking the Coliseum. The building sits on the the ancient Fagutale Hill, via del Fagutale …
2011 – Berlin; Friedrichstrasse and the German History Museum
We like to use Berlin as our last stop before returning home. It’s an easy flight to Frankfurt and a direct flight to San Francisco. After a couple of month …
2011 – Croatia, Zagreb; the Gornji Grad and Donji Grad
The name Zagreb comes from the shape of the area at the base of Mount Medvednica that looks like it was scooped out of the landscape. The old word for …
2011 – Croatia, Korcula; home of Marco Polo
In one version of the Island’s origin, when Jason and the Argonauts stopped here on their way back home, the island reminded them so much of their beloved Kerkyra (Corfu) …
2011 – Croatia – Istria; Porec, Pula, Rovinj and Opatija
We rented a car in Milan and drove it through the Friuli region but it’s still not easy to drive Italian rentals into Croatia. It’ll happen soon, but not yet. …
2011 – Friuli Venezia Giulia; Trieste, Udine and Aquileia
Without a doubt, getting to Trieste this was the worst travel day we’ve had in a long time. We started at 8:30am from our villa in Puglia and finally arrived …
2011 – Puglia; Lecce, Alberobello and the Salento Peninsula
A quick stopover in Tesle Terme, Benevento in the Campania. We drove to Puglia from Rome. Point to Point it would have been a 10 hr drive so we decided …
2011 – Rome; Palazzo Farnese, Cinecittà, Vatican Nights and the Hypogeum
“Hail Caesar. We who are about to fry salute you”. The temperatures in Rome are +33°C (91°F) every day. somedays we’ve gotten up close to 40°C. We like to get …
2011 – Sanremo, Genoa, Cinque Terre, Sestri Levante, Portovenere
Sanremo The tunnels through the mountains from Milan to Sanremo are an amazing engineering achievement and worth every euro (and it costs a lot of them). They come up at …
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