Whew! The last three days have left us breathless and a little sore from hiking. When we first arrived here it was pissing with rain and there were no nountains to be seen. The weather channel said there would be rain storms and possibly flooding. Given the chance that we would probably not be returning to this area we had to at least give it a chance. Trying to find a place to sleep when tourist information is closed and the rain is pounding does not do much...

Our trip to Venice was amazing! We left our car in the town of Mestre which is like a suburb on the mainland. We arived here after a full day of travel from Florence. The trip took us through rough forested hills then down to a never ending delta. The shoreline was a mixture of populated beaches (populated by mostly empty beach chairs and umbrellas) and huge belching factories. The closer we got to Venice the more factories and ports we had to pass. Made fo...

I ended my last entry as we were heading for a wine tasting and tour of Trebbio winery. We have experienced wine tasting in Canada, America, South Africa and evey a nasty little strawberry wine in Cambodia but we have never experienced a tasting quite like this one. Chianti country.... grapes crushed and aged in the dungeon of an ancient castle in the hills of Tuscany. Hmmmm.... does that add to the taste? I'm not sure but the fact that the little barrels...