Caio! I believe I have been spelling "Caio" wrong this entire time! How embarassing! ANyway, drove to Verona today, our last day. We went another couple, 2 1/2 hours away. It was a bit confusing, we had some trouble finding parking and getting around the city. We saw an old Roman Theater, an ancient Forum and an old wall surrounding the entire city from ancient times. It was a trick getting around so we finally ended up, at one point, hiring a t...

Chaio! I made it back safely from Rome! We did a swirlwind visit in 16 hours. 8 hours on a sleeper train, 1 way. We had 3 bunks in the train. That was fun. We had lots of advice for Rome from people who had already been there. NOt much of it was worthwhile to us. We did follow directions for getting bus tickets at the Colleseum but after that it fell apart. OUr goal was to get to the Vatican and visit there first. We had to take scaves and sweaters to ...

Bueno giorno! I just typed a long synopsis of my weekend in Venice but this laptop and it's strange touchpad just zapped it away. I do not want to retype everything. SOrry! Maybe tomorrow. Venice was great. I loved it. Very unique place. Lots of people. Took gondola ride, had gelotto, rode waterbus several times to get around island. Rented and rode bikes on another island to the beach. Walked the alleys of Venice and looked in many small shops for Mur...

Hi all! We had a slow morning. We were waiting for the guys to get off early and take to Nove in the afternoon. So we walked around Aviano and went shopping. SHops are only open for a few hours so we were finally able to get into some of them. OUr drive to Nove took 2 1//2 hours - we were not happy with that. When we finally found it, after driving around a "round about" at least 4 times, we had to ask for directions. We got to Nove to find these...

Hi! This is the fiirst day we went out on our own to a town down the road - on a bus. We got there on a Market day and saw lots of venders. We had lunch in an outdoor cafe. very quaint! Very Italian. Lots of people on bikes, ladies in dresses on bikes. Am going to pool on base - not eating dinner till later at 7:00 pm so have time to kill. Chiao!