So, today was our cooking class day. We debated just how we were going to get there, with some of us wanting to avoid all those steps! We ended up taking them anyway and in record time. Stopped for a coffee before going to Covo dei Saraceni, a beautiful hotel right at the beach, for our cooking class. Paolo, the conceirge, met us and brought us back to the kitchen after giving us our complimentary aprons, copies of the recipes, and certificates of completion ...

Tuesday we slept in. Then visited the market for fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, anchovies, and lots of wine. We may have wiped out their inventory. Then we headed down hill, 3500-ish steps, to the beach for a swim. We didn't take towels thinking they would be included in the beach chair; we were wrong. Once we sat down the "captain", as he called himself came by to take our drink orders. He also surreptitiously sold us little cell phone holders that looked li...

We had beautiful weather for our excursion to Capri. Capri is the Roman word for goat, and Italians put the accent on the first syllable. Capri has a long history of human habitation, going back to the Greeks. The Roman Emporers made the island their Eden. We booked through Cassiopeia for a tour for 12 "personae". There were newlyweds from Kansas, a couple from Seattle, a couple from Argentina... we met our Capitan at 9am and set off. The captain was quit...

Sunday we attempted to make coffee for 4 with a single espresso cup Italian coffee maker. Needless to say that took a fair amount of time. Eventually, we got organized to go down to the center of town. For those unfamiliar with Positano, it is a town built into the hills. It has 1-2 main roads for cars, buses, trucks and scooters which only accommodate one vehicle at a time. There is a maze of stairs for pedestrians to use to avoid getting run over by the many c...

Karol, Cher, Mike and Jean met at the Toronto airport at 6 PM Friday night (5/25). Since we chose to treat ourselves to business class tickets we were able to hang out in the KLM Lounge until boarding (free wine and appys). We started boarding at 8:30 pm, and by 9:30 had glasses of Prosecco. We had dinner at 11 EST then movies (LaLaLand for Jean) then we stretched out to sleep. So wonderful! Arrived in Rome at noon Roman time, six hours ahead of our time. F...