Bill: We stepped off of our plane to the Venice region in the evening, and experienced some slight confusion with the public bus transportation system in Mestre (the closest mainland city to Venice), but eventually found our way to the Alba D’Oro camping resort and were extremely pleased with what we saw! The little campground had an ATM right at reception, a built-in internet café, a restaurant, a swimming pool with lounge chairs (sadly not open yet...

Our first night in Rome was not the most ideal introduction to Italy. Our flight was really late at night to begin with, not getting us to the Rome Ciampino airport until after midnight. We then had to wait forever for the luggage to come out. We waited for about an hour, until finally it was all unloaded and squared away, and then headed outside to take the Terravision shuttle bus to the city center. We weren’t too worried about how late it was, because we...