No Heat for You We arrived at the farmhouse in Tuscany around 6 PM, driving our rental car from a train station on the outskirts of Rome, braving several hundred kilometres of Italian drivers, including many traffic jams on the highway getting here. We were all pretty tired by the time we arrived, and we were met by the manager…

Heading South We had spent four days in Rome and visited many of the major sites, doing a lot of walking in the process. By the time our first Sunday arrived, we were packing our suitcases and heading south to Sorrento, taking our first of four train rides in Italy. We picked up our train at the extremely busy Roma…

The Ride It’s Thursday morning, and we arrived at our hotel in Rome last night. I didn’t sleep very much on the plane, and by the time we got to our hotel, it was almost 10 PM, and after setting up everyone’s Wi-Fi, I needed to sleep and this morning feel much better and well rested. It’s about 6 AM,…

Back After a Long Time After reviewing my notes, we last travelled to Italy 20 years ago. It was one of our earliest trips to Europe and the first time we travelled with family. We returned from Italy with many great memories, and we’ve discussed a return trip for the past few decades. That return trip has finally arrived, after…

While it has been almost a year since we went to Italy and over 8 months since getting the DVD from that trip completed, you’d think that I’d have other things on my mind like my upcoming trip to Germany in less than two weeks than updating the Italy DVD. In truth, my Germany trip is pretty much all planned…