Oh my fruitiness!  Dinner was ok, but dessert was so good!  The mangos and melon was delicious!  Why can't we pick fruit ripe so it tastes this good ( Read more... )

Just checked into the hotel.  I am so glad to have the hotel room right away.  The other people who rode the bus in with me (company organized) were planning to go out and explore, but I'll be here an extra three days anyway.  I think resting my leg and my body is more sensible.  Though, of course, being me, I feel guilty about it.  But, I think ( Read more... )

Today's primary activity was a gorgeous train ride to Taormina, Sicily.  It started a little hectic, because we were trying to get ourselves a place to stay in Taormina and then find ourselves food and got there with only 5ish minutes to spare.  As we were trying to find our train car, we found out that they cancelled the first class carriages, so ( Read more... )

(Written by Jenn)

We had planned to get an early start.  Well, earlier, at least.  But I(Jenn) discovered that I was down to 77 photos left on my memory card, which would never do.  Unfortunately, while photos have been uploading faster to Dropbox at this hotel, it still wasn't fast enough.  And Rose is very nervous having pictures only on the ( Read more... )

So, I picked the 12:30 time slot to get into the Vatican Museums.  We just can't get going in the morning.  But I figured it would allow us to grab food on the way.  I was wrong.  But at least advanced tickets allowed us to not queue up for the museum. We still had to queue for the audioguide, which was a ridiculously long line.

We looked at a ( Read more... )

...Eat a lot of pizza and walk a lot, apparently.

Breakfast was a bit disappointing, I must admit.  But, we do like this place anyway.  And Renato (the desk-guy) was still amusing.

We set off on one of his tour itineraries this morning, with only a few minor detours along the way.  First stop, Porta Pia, which was the Pope's last stand before ( Read more... )

Today was for Jenn to finish packing.  Thankfully we did hear back from a B&B that Jenn found on Purple Roofs for us, so we have a place to stay in Rome, pretty close to the train station.

We tried to go back to Goblin, but it didn't open until 3:30.  We also tried to get a haircut for Jenn, but it was closed from 2-3:30.  We had tried yesterday, ( Read more... )

Today was a weird day.  We were wiped out and slept in very late and then decided to take one last day of relaxing (well, except for Jenn packing and Juka bashing her head against the internet) before we headed to big bad Rome tomorrow.

Soo..... you get a bunch of random Italy/Sansepolcro thoughts today.

The milk is way tastier here.  I don't ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention about the flag show last night that they also had a belly dance performance.  It was interesting, but it was hard to enjoy it in the way that I think most people did, because I was sitting there  evaluating technique instead.  There were some nice combinations though.

Today, we dragged ourselves up and out the door to try to ( Read more... )

Breakfast was the Chiele treats.  Wow.  They are really darn tasty.  A lot of flavor is packed in those cute little treats.  Now we understand why Jackie loves the place. It's a splurge, but it's worth it.

I was tired of being a tourist, and we were out of socks, so the call of duty today was laundry.  It's expensive here!  Seriously.  3.50euro to ( Read more... )