We are on our way to the UK for about a month – flying into London tonight and directly onto Bath on Tuesday. We’re taking Rick Steve’s general itinerary for UK touring in 22 days and cutting it down in a few places. We will be checking out Stonehenge and Avebury after a few days of relaxing…
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Queens of the Rhein
If you ever need to feel like a Princess again (yes, I’m talking to you Bill), the Rhein Valley in Germany is just where you should head! After spending the night in Rothenburg, we took the Romantic Road – which incidentally, is really not that romantic at all, especially with all the construction. We bailed…
…Oooohhh…so that’s why it’s so green around here…
Okay, so when we began exploring the idea of visiting Switzerland, we knew that it would be pricey – like over 250 euro per night for a basic hotel over 100 euros per night for a crappy hostel where tales of stolen items abound and easily over 13 euro for a 6-piece nugget meal from…
Sun-bleached Cinque Terre
Since we originally began planning our trip to Europe, the Cinque Terre portion of the Italian Riviera was a must-do! We saved it for a time frame when we would not require internet because the tiny fishing villages are just not connected like we normally would need them to be. While there – we had…
Doing the “Must-Dos” of Rome
The past three days have been a whirlwind of sightseeing and tons and tons and tons of walking. We visited the Colosseum on Tuesday – it really is enormous and a feat of engineering built by Jewish slaves – it was good to be a Roman citizen. Part of it was destroyed centuries ago in…
Definitely Different Rome
We arrived in Rome yesterday afternoon and spent four hours trying to get into our apartment. It’s a very long story that I won’t spend more energy on but essentially we are in the fifth apartment we saw along the way and boy is it ever “interesting”. Again – no more complaining. We are moving…
Beautiful and Relaxing Firenze
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…
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…