This morning I was finally able to run again, it was the first morning in almost a week that either we weren't traveling or it wasn't raining. It had rained before I went outside but at least I saw a break in the rain. Robyn's plan for today was museum's, the Uffizi Gallery, Galileo, and the Pitti Palace. We had a scheduled time for the Uffizi so we walked around in the Piazza della Signoria which is in front of the Uffizi and contains many statues bot modern and...

One thing we have noticed about Italy, everything seems to go at a slower pace, that would include the high speed trains. We took a high speed train from Verona to Florence today, at times it just seemed like the train was travelling at the same speed as the train we took to Venice yesterday. We booked first class for several reasons, extra room for luggage, better seats, no annoying children, and yes we are travel snobs. However on this train forget the extra ro...

Today is our 36th wedding anniversary, we had decided to spend the day in Venice and then come back for dinner in Verona. Venice is called many names "Queen of the Adriatic"; "City of Bridges"; "City of Canals"; for us it was the "City of doing a whole lot of walking", or "City of my knees and back hurt". Okay we are a couple of whiners, we are also old as is evident by the fact we have been taking breaks mid-way through the afternoon to go to our hotel and rest....

On tap for today is a cooking class, this should really be interesting. Before we do that Robyn wanted to go to Juliette's house and take a picture of the balcony. Waiting until this morning was one of the smarter things we have done on this trip, the place was nearly empty. The balcony is nothing special, in fact when I got up to the description of the balcony I learned it was made from an old sarcophagus, talk about irony. There is a museum in the house about l...

"In fair Verona, where we lay our scene..... A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life." Whoa hold on there let's not get carried away. Today we are off on the 6:50 am flight British Air flight from London to Verona. I am glad we checked our bags the night before, at 5:30 am Gatwick is a madhouse. The flight was fine and we were sure glad to leave the rain behind us and land in Verona where it is.......raining of course. The rain seems to be following us ...