If I ever wondered where I should be living and spending my days, today was a resounding reminder that it is near the ocean. There is something about seeing large bodies of water (lakes barely count) that literally makes my heart beat faster. I can’t get enough of it. Ever. Last night I went to…
Today I spent about 5 hours travelling. Maybe more. My friend Enzo picked me up at 10 am and I checked into the hotel in Sorrento at 4pm. It was a long day of travelling…. on a range of trains for sure. But I’ll get to that. Last night after much talk and deliberation, I…
After I wrote yesterday’s post, I went back to my room with the odd inclination to turn on the tv. I had only turned on the tv one other time while I was here and it wasn’t a successful attempt – but something made me do it. While I’ve been here, I’ve ignored all of…
With each “city” that I arrive at, I am constantly amazed at how cute each of them is in their own ways. By this point, I’ve been to Venice, Florence, Monterosso, Vernazza, Manarola, Siena, Montepulciano … and a few train stations in between. Cortona was one that I was really excited for but not for…
When I first started to vocalize plans for this trip to Italy, I heard a fair amount of advice – but the one thing that really stood out among the tips was to visit Montepulciano. It didn’t seem as though it would be super easy to do however…. Primarily based on my guidebook. When I…
I’m already in bed… tired from a day trip to Montapulciano. I’ll write a better post about it tomorrow (perhaps) but here are some pictures to show that I’m not lying.
Today is my first day without Kerrianne by my side. It was such a great twist of fate that she was able to join me in the first place, so I was sad to see her leave this morning. Despite our obvious personality differences, we are really great travel companions. It was so helpful and…
If you saw the “Live Update” about the Sciopero …. And perhaps didn’t see another post yesterday, you might have thought I was still stuck in Cinque Terre. But we didn’t get stuck there. The weather when we woke up (and were sleeping) was terrible and windy. It was raining and very gusty … and…
sciopero in Italian means “train strike”. This was one of the words I learned before coming here …. And we came back to our hotel last night from dinner and saw this little note on our bed. Yikes. So our leisurely morning changed to an earlier wake-up with the hopes of getting back to Florence…
Today was not spent in museums, galleries, or fearingpigeons in city squares – but rather very much the opposite. We woke up early to catch the train to Cinque Terre on thecoast. Cinque Terre is described as a rugged, coastal portion of the Italian Riviera and composed of 5 primary villages. Whenever I mentioned to…
