7/20 If Lake Como is good enough for George Clooney, then it's good enough for me! By the time the wake-up call came at 6:30, Mikayla's alarm on her phone had gone off 3 times. She finally got up and left the room to go to her boyfriend's room. I got dressed quickly (it helps when you get in the habit of laying everything out the night before), put my luggage outside my door, and went for breakfast. I sat by Jackie, a older woman from Florida traveling alone, a...

7/2 Ciao Massa Lubrense! Benvenuto Spello! I got up early to pack the last of my things and to carry my luggage up the 80 or so steps to the top where our driver would be picking us up to take us to the Naples train station. Paul, Leona and Leah left at 5 am so our group was down to 7. Our driver, Massimo, got there at about 7:00 and we were off to Naples. Once we got to Naples, we unloaded our things and went into the station. I hadn't yet activated my Eurail ...

7/1 Positano and Amalfi.... Yeee! Since everyone had already done an Amalfi/Positano tour on Tuesday while I was still traveling to the villa, I decided to tour both towns with Combes. We left the villa at 9, bought bus tickets, and bussed to the harbor. We spent 13 euro to take a 40 min. ferry ride to Positano. We would have taken a bus which would have been half the price, but as we found out a couple days prior, the busses we would have had to go on were on ...

7/4 When In Rome... Celebrate the Fourth of July! We got to sleep in today because our train wasn't going to leave Spello until about 11:30. I didn't get up until about 8:30. Combes said he couldn't find where the breakfast buffet was. It wasn't right near the lobby like it had been the day before. That had me nervous because I had to have that awesome breakfast. We got down to the lobby and the woman working at the desk said breakfast would be on the patio tod...

7/3 Assisi? Si! Si! The next morning was glorious thanks to the most amazing breakfast! It was included at the hotel. It was set up as a buffet and looked like it could have been from a magazine. I had an awesome salami and prosciutto sandwich, fresh oj, green grapes, and a pastry we all called "chocolate cloud" which was essentially a flakey pastry with chocolate baked in and powdered sugar on top. We didn't have to get up too early because we were going to ...