We are staying in Florence (Firenze) for about a week – renting a lovely apartment for the same cost as a hotel room and absolutely loving it! We’ve spent so much less on food by cooking most of the time and have really made use of the washing machine in the hot, sweaty heat of…
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A Baby Jesus Here and a Baby Jesus There…Here a Baby, There a Baby, Everywhere a Baby Jesus….
Today we headed in the late afternoon to brave the heat and the crowds of Florence (Firenze) and intended only to do the Rick Steve’s walking tour of the city and to arrange for reservations later this week to two of the major art museums in town. We figured there’d be a slim chance of…
Lake Como and Verona and Venice — Oh My!!!
…sorry if the pics aren’t ordered next to the corresponding text but sometimes it just doesn’t turn out that way in Word Press….you’ll just have to try to keep up! Where to begin? We have spent the past few days touring amazing cities – more beautiful than I had ever imagined they could be! Lake…
Leonardo Da Vinci – he really was a genius…
I know that sounds like DUH — but SERIOUSLY, I’m not kidding – this man was brilliant! So yesterday, we spent most of our time at the National Museum of Science and Technology with our buddy Leonardo. What an amazing man! He contributed so much to Italy and the world. The museum was filled with…
Milan, where capitalism actually isn’t everything…
We have spent the past few days in Milano. It is a beautiful city in Northern Italy and we have enjoyed our time here – especially the free wifi in the hotel and the quiet room for the down time we needed. We visited the Duomo which was built over the course of six centuries,…
Washing Clothes on the Go
So…a few people have asked about how we manage to wash clothes while we are traveling. I thought instead of telling you how, I’d show you: Yes – about once a month it is nice to use a machine but even hand-washing keeps them remarkably clean and it’s pretty darn easy too!
The Hills Really Are Alive…
Again … apologies for the delay in posting. Internet has been intermittent and expensive for the last few days, so I, being the lesser overall priority, have not been able to send anything out and the catching up has been all-absorbing. We are now in Munich, or Muenchen, as the locals call it. We stayed…
Salzburg: Mozart’s town
Today was a day for low-key touring and lots of picture-taking. As I mentioned before, the town is absolutely stunning with mountains pressing right up to it and even becoming a part of the architecture. Many of the buildings in the old town date from the 1400s, so the wandering was a lot of fun.…
Wifi, wifi everywhere … and then it’s gone…
We left Vienna today and traveled to Salzburg – through some beautiful, idyllic towns with rolling hills and bucolic farmland. Vienna was fantastic – gentile and refined and amazingly there were wifi cafes everywhere – especially in the neighborhood where we stayed (this comes into play later). We saw some amazing architecture and enjoyed the…
Dining with MJ and the Habsburgs
We had a fantastic dinner tonight at the City Grill in a suburban mall in Vienna. Yes, a mall. But a mall like none you’ve seen in the US. It has a little bit of everything, lots of restaurants both fast and fancy as well as clothing, supermarkets, computer stores, and even a radio station. …