Adventures after Retirement

We went to bed with some rain coming down, the first we have had in Italy, but woke to a clear and beautiful morning with a slight chill in the air and a bit of a wind.  We had tea and a bite to eat at home before leaving to check out what is called… Continue reading Rome 10/7/17

I thought it might be interesting to talk a little about the food on this trip.  The first time I went to Paris was in was in the early 80’s, over 30 years ago.  The boulangerie was where one went for coffee in the morning, and also for lunch and then dinner options were mainly… Continue reading Food, glorious food.

Today was our first quiet day in Rome.  After seriously overdoing it yesterday we took a lazier approach to the day.  We got up on the late side and walked down to our favorite little cafeteria (coffee shop) a half a block down the street where we had pastry and coffees for 3.60 euro. Such… Continue reading Rome 10/6/17

Today we had planned to just go to see the Pantheon, Rome’s oldest intact church that was built almost 2000 years ago since we were a bit tired from our Vatican Museums tour yesterday, but the day had other plans for us…. We thought we would walk over since it was just about three miles… Continue reading Rome 10/5/17

Well, we did not waste any time getting to the big stuff here in Rome.  As we sat in our place last night doing some planning for our time here, we thought we should just do the Vatican Museums right away.  We had been told that the way to go for this was to take… Continue reading Rome, The Vatican 10/4/17

Today marked the end of the auto portion of our planes, trains and automobiles vacation.  We started the day in Tuscany, in the lovely Hotel Panorama on top of a hill near Montepulciano. It was a beautiful clear morning so we had the breakfast offered by the hotel that came with the room and then… Continue reading Rome 10/3/17

Well, everything you’ve heard about this region is true, it’s absolutely beautiful.  We had nice weather today although a bit cloudy at times which made picture taking a challenge, but even these photos can’t hide the gorgeous countryside. We left Lirici after our nice breakfast by the port and took off for Siena.  We thought… Continue reading Tuscany! 10/2/17

Today was our travel day from France to Italy.  We could not take our rental car over which would have been the easiest way, since we learned that there would be a $1000 fee for taking it into Italy and leaving it there.  We decided that turning the car back in to the office in… Continue reading Nice to Italy 10/1/17

Today was a rare day for us lately in that we actually stayed in one city for a whole day and tonight will be a second night here.  We started the day by driving to the train station where we be leaving for Italy tomorrow  morning in order to return our rental car.  It actually… Continue reading Nice 9/30/17

What a day! We started in Provence and worked out way down to Cote de Provence and then to the Cote D’Azur.  We took the slow roads for most of the day to get as close to possible to the Mediterranean and we wound our way through miles of vineyards along the way. We made… Continue reading Aix-en-Provence to Nice 9/29/17