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…
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And Four to Florence! Oh-no Three! Yeah Four!
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…
Three to the Vatican!
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…
Rome and Family! Yeah!
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…
The Amalfi Coast
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…
10’s and 2’s.
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…
Barqueiros
We decided early in the planning to spend our last few days in Portugal in a rural area. We had read so much about the beauty of the Douro Valley we started researching there and went no further. There are many Quintas (rural historic estates) that rent rooms or small houses to tourists. Because it…
Braga is Not Too Far From Heaven
Today was one of those special days that you just don’t want to end. We hired Pedro as a tour guide to get out of the city and head North to the Minho region. I’m not sure if it’s because we are rural people but we love the days that we venture out to smaller…
Porto – first day and the last day in the city.
Porto and the Porto area is our next stop. We will spend 3 days in the city but will take the middle day to tour North into Minho. I did a separate post about Braga and Minho so this will cover our other two Oporto city days. Our arrival and first morning in Porto was…
Lisbon – Day 2,3 and 4!
On Day 2 we ventured out walking and soon negotiated with a TukTuk driver to go on a tour and help us climb those hills. It was fun and he was great. We saw more in 2 hours than we would have seen all day. Pedro our guide shared the beauty of his city and…