Our flight arrived at 6:30 local time. It took about an hour to get through customs and collect baggage, then someone from the hotel met us at the airport for the 15 minute drive to Appia Hotel. His English was pretty good and we had a pleasant ride. He told us that we would be able to get in to our room right away and we were very happy about that. He was wrong. When we went to check in we were told that all rooms were full and it would be 2:00 before we co...

Up at 4:30 a.m. Tom Shea picked us up at 7:00 and we were plenty early for our 9:55 flight. It was a two hour flight to Toronto and we both slept for a while. We arrived in Toronto a noon and our next fligh isn't until five o'clock. We found a sit down place for lunch where we shared crostini for an appetizer, then I have a turkey panini and Jahn had a spinach salad with berries. And tea. The Toronto airport is great, and there are many areas where people...

The packing is mostly done. The house is ready. We have checked in for the flight already. Hopefully we will get a good night's sleep as we will be up at 4:30 a.m. Hopefully we haven't forgotten anything. Today is our 26th anniversary. We reminisced a bit during the day. No time for a special dinner tonight, so take out from Zantos. We will have plenty of special meals in the coming weeks. Weather forecast for Prague is in the 70s for the next week. And...

I was able to import my old TravelPod blogs but realized: 1. This site doesn't allow separating them into different blogs so they all appear under Prague and River Cruise. (They expect to be able to separate them into different blogs in a few months). Right now you have to move around quite a bit to get back to the first Italy entries, but they are there. 2. Gary did most of the England Travel Pod so we will have to wait for him to import his data:-) 3. T...

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