A country that honestly only jumped onto my bucket list because my daughter talked about it. Well I do remember Luca from ER but he’s forgotten around here apparently. Yes, it was that trip that was stopped before it began due to her health emergency and then the whirlwind that became her family so quickly. Bad then absolutely fairytale amazing. Anyway I digress. We’re on a cruise and our ship stopped in Croatia. We had arranged a tour that walked the city wa...

Today was our last full day in Venice. We had work to do. We have been traversing Spain, Portugal and Italy and at some point one needs to wash their laundry. We checked on line and identified a place we thought would work. With directions in hand we walked to our bus 31H which stops outside our hotel, just down the street. We thought we knew so we crossed the street but apparently we were on the wrong side of the street. Ok no problem we crossed the street. A lo...

Today we took the bus then the high speed train, then the metro into Milan. Coming up the stairs from the Metro the photo attached to the blog was our welcome to Milan. It was awe inspiring to say the least. We walked around the building but decided to not enter due to cost, the line and frankly we’ve seen a lot of gorgeous art and architectural feats beyond belief lately. Sounds tainted but it was our decision this time. We headed to the fashion triangle and w...

We took the bus into Venezia today. Super clean and fast at 1,5e each. It dropped us off at the station on the island. Now where to go. No matter we’ll just walk and that’s what we did. Over bridges, down narrow alleyways, in and out of fun shops and across many raised panel walkways as flooding is an issue. Fun places with all shapes of masks, Murano glass and lots of Italian leather shops everywhere. Gondolas cruised down the canals and we just enjoyed the ...

Our last full day in Rome. We decided it was time to take in the Vatican as well as the Borghese Villa museum which is near our hotel. Unfortunately it was a very rainy day. We bundled up and firmly pressed our Tilley hats on our heads as they work great to keep rain off your glasses. Off we went, It’s quite a walk across Rome to get to the Vatican and as we were accosted by an unending slew of people selling umbrellas it took longer than normal. Are they crazy...