Travel

We have now been traveling for four weeks.  We’ve been in lovely Assisi since Friday, and today is Tuesday.  Tomorrow, we leave for Cortona, home of the story, “Under the Tuscan Sun.”  Staying in one place for more than a day or two allows us to slow down, and we are ready for that. We […]

Shawn and I have breakfast at our lovely hotel, Borgo Antichi Orti Assisi.  We are served fresh fruits and vegetables, homemade bread and other wholesome foods.  I order café Americano and Shawn opts for cappuccino.  We walk again up the steep hill to the bustling town above.  We go into Basilica of Saint Frances of

We leave our hotel in Torgiano this morning and take a taxi to Assisi.  We arrive to a beautiful hotel that was once a monastery just down the hill from the busy village up top.  The hotel has twelve quaint rooms and a garden where we are told all the fresh produce served in the

We have breakfast this morning on the same patio where we ate dinner last night.  Simple, whole foods are available on the continental style food bar.  The server brings us cappuccino and we watch the birds and bees in the garden next to us.  We set out to explore more of this little village only

Good morning, Florence!  We have breakfast again by the poolside.  There are lots of healthy choices so it’s a nice way to start the day.  We see familiar faces of others who have also been here for a few days.  We stroll out of our hotel and past a little park area on the corner

We wake up today, have coffee and enjoy breakfast downstairs at our hotel before heading out to see the city of Firenze. It’s hot again today, and I feel like I can stop writing that as it will likely be hot for the rest of this adventure.  We go through the piazza and buy perfume,

Our time in Venice is short-lived, but well spent and appreciated!  We learned our lesson on our first day here, when we walked our luggage from the train station to our hotel in the hottest, most humid heat of the summer…trudging over uneven cobblestone and brick streets, bridges, and then more uneven streets with our

Today we do more laundry while drinking our coffee before heading out.  We eat leftover pizza for breakfast and make a plan to have a more leisurely day.  We buy a 24-hour pass to ride the water taxi and head to an ATM connected to a bank that has a partnership with our bank at

We awake today to another bright, sunny, hot and humid summer day.  The further we walk from our hotel, the more people we see, like us, walking in and out of the many maze-like corridors and up and down the many stairs that comprise the bridges that go over the canals of the city.  It’s

We start our day with breakfast at our hotel before rolling our suitcases down and across the street to the train station.  We change trains twice today.  On the second leg of our ride, a man from Eastern India and his family are sitting near us.  He is sitting straight across from a lady with