Tag Archives: Italy
Packing and Unpacking for Italia
packing and unpacking for Italy. What to wear in Italy Continue reading
Pages from Italy…the beginning
traveling through Italy Continue reading
(Insert a tear) Last Days in Rome
October 17, 2009 – Rome, Italy Hello Canada…hello soft bed; familiar language; wide roads… Sadly, this post is about our last days in Rome and the end of our “fuzzy travels” for 2009. What did we do on our last … Continue reading
Ahh…. ROME!
October 15, 2009 – Rome, Italy We are back on familiar ground. As we arrived in Rome via the “Red Arrow” train from Naples/Sorrento, I heard a huge happy sigh coming from my travel partner. Luigi is happy to be … Continue reading
Hiking, more hiking and.. narrow roads
October 13, 2009 – Sorrento, Italy Hello Journal…it has been a few days and many crazy, curvy miles, or, rather kilometers since our last post. Where’d we leave you? Capri? Oh yes…Capri, where, before we left, we did another long … Continue reading
From Orvieto to Capri: a first day of wonders…
October 5, 2009 – Capri, Italy We have arrived in Anacapri and it is a lazy afternoon (plus it is a loooong hike to get anywhere from our B&B, some 287 steps plus another 200 meters walk straight up). So … Continue reading
Last day at Poggio Asciutto
Our last day at agritourismo Poggio Asciutto. Continue reading
How do you say “too much” in Italian?
October 1, 2009 – Greve in Chianti, Italy How do you say “too much” in Italian? Picture me, at the Saturday market in Greve trying my hand at buying olives from one of the vendors. Luigi felt that it was … Continue reading
Horseback riding in Chianti
September 29, 2009 – Greve in Chianti, Italy I am back in my “office” this sunny, warm Chianti morning. It is getting busy here on the terracotta steps of Poggio Asciutto. There is another couple (from Vancouver!) that are also … Continue reading
Dodging tourists…..
September 26, 2009 – Greve in Chianti, Italy I am sitting here at our “cucina” table in our apartment named Sambuca at Poggio Asciutto in the middle of the Chianti region; Italian music is playing on the iPod, Luigi is … Continue reading