Category: Italy

Heather and Brad fly back to Regina tomorrow. It’s been so great to have them here. We are going to spend the day getting to know Venice together. I had booked a walking tour with Federico months ago. He would meet us in St Mark’s Square at 9 am and teach us about Venice. It…

No new cases of the stomach flu and everybody feeling ready and raring to go Yeah!!! Fingers crossed that holds. We checked out of the Airbnb in Florence and went for a last breakfast at a little cafe down the street we enjoyed. We walked to have a last gander at the Duomo and then…

Time to pack up and head to Italian City 2 in our Helgason/Hack travels. I’m upright again and good to go to Termini and get on the train. In 2 hours we will be in Florence in a new Airbnb with many wonderful things to see. We have loved the train in Europe (well all…

What crap luck this morning. We are in Rome! Rome! Blessed with children that have come to Rome to be with us and explore the city – a once in a lifetime happy happy occurrence and I get the stomach flu!! Or food poisoning!! Or Covid!! Or whatever the hell this is!!! I am destined…

We headed back into Naples today -NOT on the infamous Circumvesuviana train. We actually met a couple last night that were heading back to Naples to fly back to the US and they had booked a town car – they invited us to go halves and join them and we did. Perfect. We had an…

Seeing the Amalfi Coast has been on our “want to see” list for quite awhile. We decided to add it to our itinerary before we headed to Rome. The Amalfi Coast landscape is breathtaking and we zeroed in on visiting Positano, Amalfi, and Ravello and making Sorrento/SanAgnello our home base. We knew we didn’t want…

I am not sure if this is travel or ramblings and actually I debated with myself whether I should write this post at all……I like to be positive and not spend a lot of time bogged down in hours or days that are better let pass by. But, I thought, if you are going to…