Finally. Just when we were expecting another delay to pop up for us, we were on our way and boarding our British Airways flight to Vancouver. As I write this final chapter of Our Excellent Italian Adventure, will be landing in Vancouver in about 90 minutes. We never got to see any of London today due to time constraints. I…

Around this point of our Italian Adventure, I expected to be wrapping up our story and telling you how great everything was. Unfortunately not so. A new chapter of Our Excellent Italian Adventure has unfolded which was unknown to us even 12 hours ago when we woke up in Milan ready to depart for the airport. The original plan was…

Shopping for a Real Milan Experience Picking up from our last episode, we made it to the Milano Centrale train station without too many problems – other than sore arms from carrying all of the extra stuff that we had bought in Tuscany. Our taxi ride from the train station to the hotel was shorter than expected (less than 10…

Back on the Road Again We finally ended up getting out of the villa on Wednesday after lazing around for most of the morning and early afternoon. By about 2:00 we decided to make a short drive around the neighbouring towns around our villa. We had seen a road sign many times to a town called Sambuca and decided to…

More Chianti, More Tuscany, More Everything As it’s Monday today, we were planning on picking up a few more of the things that we were looking to get for our kitchen in the way of food supplies. Having a kitchen in our villa allows us to be a little more selective as to what we’ll be eating for breakfast –…

Half Way Point It’s Friday today and tomorrow will officially be the halfway point in our Excellent Italian Adventure. That also means that today will be our last full day in Sorrento and as a result, we all have a full day’s agenda ahead of us. For Barb, Liz and Peter, they will be making a visit to the Roman…

Thirty-Two Stops to Sorrento To continue our story from last time, we made our train from Rome to Naples and had to connect to another train to get to our final destination: Sorrento. Sorrento is on the southern edge of the Bay of Naples and part of the Amalfi Peninsula. Sorrento also happens to be the southern part of Italy…

Speaking the Language As it is with any foreign country that you might visit, your ability to speak the language makes a big difference as to how you will enjoy the trip. Case in point: Barb and I have a passable command of French and as a result we have had much more interesting experiences in France where we could…

It’s day 5 into our trip and I’m just overwhelmed by all the sights we have seen. I’ve never walked so much in my life but the feet are hanging in there – barely. One good thing about all this walking is all the extra wine we can drink – which is excellent by the way. We haven’t been disappointed…

Taking your Life in your Hands One of the (many) things that distinguishes European cities from where we live is often that they have cobblestone streets. Rome is a perfect example of this as pretty much all of the roads inside the city are cobblestone. On face value, the cobblestones add an old world charm that a city like Vancouver…