Monthly Archives: November 2015

I always wanted to see the leaning tower of Pisa.   For years I didn’t know where it was but once I found out it was in Italy I knew I would see it…….once I got to Italy, that was! … Continue reading →

Spent a low key evening after our cinque terra hike enjoying a home cooked meal at our air bnb and planning our next day.   We decided to take it a little easier on our aging bodies by enjoying a … Continue reading →

We decided to start our hiking experience of the Cinque Terra with Monterrosa al Mare and head towards Vernassa. Monterossa has a population of approximately 1600 and is the only Cinque Terra town built on flat land. We took the … Continue reading →

Levanto, our gateway to the Cinque Terra, is a very small and quiet town and it is here that we decided to park ourselves for three nights while we hiked around Cinque Terra.  I know some of you know about, and … Continue reading →

Le    Venice was great but we were glad to leave the crowds so took the early morning train back to Maestre to pick up our car and head somewhere although we weren’t exactly sure where.   In Venice we … Continue reading →

We were thrilled to arrive in Venice on such a warm day, 20 degrees, and even more thrilled when we arrived at our air BnB apartment and met our host Nicola. The place was  fabulous – large, clean, two bedrooms, … Continue reading →

Padua is a beautiful  city that has a very prestigious university, founded in 1222, and hosted Galileo, Copernicus, Dante and Petrarch – we are in good company!   Totally  enjoyed it here and our Hotel Pelligrino was just across the … Continue reading →

That’s because I have been walking around all day looking up, up, up!  Raveena is an amazing city of roughly 154,000 and is known mostly for its 1500 year old churches and its West Byzantine mosaics…….absolutely spectacular! It has an … Continue reading →

……..was at the top of our list of places to visit even though it’s not in Italy!   Jim came across it in the Globe and Mail, I believe, sent it on to Marilyn who quickly agreed it was a … Continue reading →

San Leo, northeast of Assisi, has a disputed population – one site said 26 and the other site said 44!   But no matter what the population, it has so far been the highlight of our trip and on that … Continue reading →