9/14/07 Our last day in Tuscany. We decided to stay local and drive over the mountain to Fiesole. First we went just up the hill to see what was in Santa Brigida. We quickly discovered not much, mostly retired people. … Continue reading
9/13/07 Originally, we were going to go to Fiesole today, but we decided Florence was worth one more full day. And after yesterday we didn’t want to spend very much time in the car. So we drove to the train … Continue reading
9/12/07 An adventure! After a few wrong turns we got on the SI-FI (Siena – Firenze) road to go to Siena (the town where they have the famous horse race, the Palio). the road into Siena isn’t very user friendly. … Continue reading
9/11/07 On Tuesdays Alberto gives tours of the wine cellar to all of the guests of Castello del Trebbio.He started by explaining the history of the castle. It was built by the Medicis and belonged to the Pazzi (Italian for … Continue reading
9/10/07 It’s 8:30am and I’m sitting on the loggia watching the pool boy clean the pool and looking out over the hills as the morning mist burns off. Definitely not a sentence I can write very often. It is so … Continue reading
9/9/07 We backtracked south on the A1 to get to the hill towns of Montepulciano and Montalcino. Montepulciano is the highest of Tuscany’s hill towns at 2000 feet. We walked around and checked out the shops and the piazza before … Continue reading
9/8/07 Crap. I’m two days behind on writing, which means I’m already forgetting and this will probably be a shorter entry (editorial comment – hah!). Maybe bullets will work best: This was the day we left Rome. We saw all … Continue reading
9/7/07 Our last full day in Rome. With Rick Steves in hand, Lance took us on a walking tour of the Jewish Ghetto and Trastevere. The ghetto is just down the street (on the other side of the tram tracks) … Continue reading
9/6/07 The plan for today was another day trip outside of Rome, this time to the hills and Tivoli to see Villa d’Este and Villa Adriana. We made it to the first, but never the second. But the first was … Continue reading
9/5/07 Today was all about wandering the city on foot. We started by heading back to the Pantheon. We were able to grab a seat inside and take it all in while listening to an iPod audio guide (this one … Continue reading
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ~S.I. Hayakawa
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
~Mark Twain
