I'm a little nervous about the ride today. With all the issues we have had getting from place to place, we have little room for error here. The car must be back by 4 pm, there's a lot of miles to cover in order to accomplish that and we've seen too many things go wrong to feel real confident about it all. They start serving breakfast here at 6 and we're there shortly after with the car already loaded. By 7am we are on the road. I'll feel bette...

You know. From the musical "The Music Man". Whatever. If you remember, we went to bed early last night, trying to shake the last of our jet lag. People were out wandering the streets, the normal shopping and dinner crowd. The Italian singer from the restaurant next door was doing his "O Sola Mia" which, I must say, is very good. The band is playing at Charlie Scott's across on the corner but it's all good. Then comes 10pm when all those people leave and t...

I'm wide awake from all the noise at midnight. That's only 3 hours of sleep. I concentrate and eventually doze off until 4 am. It's light out and the noise is picking up. No longer the party crowd, it's now garbage trucks, postmen, street sweepers, wall washers and delivery trucks. This is a clean city but it seems like all the cleaning is taking place outside our apartment window. I'm finally out of bed at 4:30am and Karen soon succumbs to my...

It's 4am and I'm wide awake. I can't go back to sleep. I try but I've been in bed for only 4 hours and I'm done with sleep. Just like our Christmas Markets trip in 2014, jet lag always kills me. It's light outside. Garbage and street cleaning trucks are running up and down the streets. The party people are now gone, replaced by the working people. I lay in bed thinking about today's activities until 5:30am and finally give up. Karen is...