Today was our trip to the Cinque Terra. Not too early a start – we had to meet at the Piazza della Republica, only a 5 minute walk, by 8am for an 8.15 departure. We met up with our driver for the day, John, and 6 others and John indicated […]
The hotel we are at – the Bernini Palace – is very nice. The room is very plush and the breakfast room this morning was almost like a palace ballroom. We headed out reasonably early, with Adrienne “drugged up” and headed to the Uffizi Gallery to beat the crowds. We […]
We have moved on to Florence today. Having woken fairly early again and with our train not due to leave until nearly 11am, we decided to head down to the Trevi Fountain again without the crowds. Sure enough there was hardly anyone there and although they were cleaning the fountain […]
The next few posts are a bit sparse of photos and will probably come in a batch – we are in Florence and the Internet is crap – restricted to my IPad for now. I’ll sort them out better when we get a chance. Today was our trip to Pompei. […]
After our busy day yesterday we both slept like a log and the garbage truck was even later this morning – probably a Sunday concession. We headed up to breakfast about 8.00am just as the church bells around the city rang out. After a leisurely breakfast we headed back to […]
