Friday, Oct 25 – evening After another bathroom selfie photoshoot (the light!), Sandy and I went up to the rooftop to watch our last Roman sunset, which was lovely. I had another Google map loaded for us to take our evening walkabout, with locations that we had yet to see. As we began walking north,…
Two Days in Rome in Five Parts – Part 4
Friday, Oct 25 – afternoon Right around noon, we headed out again for a walkabout. I’d created a Google map with five stops. It was a beautiful day. The walk, according to the map, would take an hour and 15 minutes, but we knew it would be longer because we would be stopping for photos…
Two Days in Rome in Five Parts – Part 3
Friday, Oct 25 – morning As I mentioned, Friday was our free day so we slept in a bit and took our time to get going. We decided to do a video call with Mama from the rooftop of the hotel. It was probably around 9 or 10 am, making it midnight-ish in LA. It…
Two Days in Rome in Five Parts – Part 2
Thursday, Oct 24 – evening Our second tour of the day was an evening food tour of Rome that started in the Trastevere neighborhood which is across the Tiber River. Thankfully, the weather had stayed nice, but we took our umbrellas just in case. Sandy had taken this same tour back in 2021 when she…
Two Days in Rome in Five Parts – Part 1
Thursday, Oct 24 – morning We had a busy schedule starting with our “skip-the-line” Vatican tour at 9:30 am. I didn’t sleep well the night before – tossing and turning and some tummy trouble. We had decided to have breakfast at the hotel to save a bit of time, so we headed down there around…
Rainy Rome
We had breakfast again at Cafe Rondinelli in Florence, then Sandy also had the genius idea to get a couple sandwiches to take with us on the train. Then we went by a little art shop I had spied near the wine window and bought a cool little print. Soon after, we checked out and…
Grazie, Firenze
I know I still owe you a more detailed explanation for yesterday, but let’s add today to that list, because I just don’t have it in me to write a bunch tonight. 🙂 I’ll give you a list with descriptions and some photos.
Florence shines
Just a few quick photos today because I am TIRED! I will try to fill in more hopefully tomorrow? We took the train from Milan to Florence in just about two hours. Love the train. Our hotel is near the station so we rolled our stuff over there. Again, too early for our room, so…
Goodbye, Rapallo – Hello, Milan
We got an early start this morning and got rewarded with a lovely Rapallo sunrise-ish. Sandy and I walked our bags through town for our final breakfast at Tossini. I told the girl, in Italian, who had served us nearly every day that it was our last day, and she actually looked a little sad….
Chiavari in the rain
We got up early to try to catch the sunrise, but the clouds had returned so we were out of luck. To Tossini for breakfast. The barista recognized us 🙂 We couldn’t dally though because the group was meeting to hop on the train southbound for our excursion to Chiavari! As I mentioned yesterday, our…
Meeting Grace: The Blog 