On the second day we emerged from our apartment to look around. Gil and Robin took off early, taking a fast boat to Capri, where they hired a driver to show them the island. They found it crowded even though we are in early September now. They did learn a bit of the history of the island, mostly focused on a doctor who settled there around 1900 and built a villa. He…
We left our Anniversary celebration Villa Collalto in Tuscany by express train from Firenze to Napoli on TrenItalia. There we were picked up Enzo a driver we hired through Positano Car Service, Via Cristoforo Colombo, 2 84017 Positano (Sa) Italy www.positanocarservice.com. We made a brief stop at Luiselle Moda Positano, (www.luisellemodapositano.com), Piano di Sorrento, a fashion design house just seven kilometers from Positano on the main road between Sorrento and Positano. Karen…
One of the special occasions on our anniversary trip to Italy was to take the train with two of the couples travelling with us, Mathiew and Christina, Cindy and Gary, from Firenze to Bologna to have dinner at Franco Rossi’s restaurant (Via Gioto No 3, Bologna – francorossibologna@hotmail.it, www.ristorantefrancorossi.it). Franco’s Restaurant was featured in John Grisham’s novel, The Broker, and one of my novels, Life After, www.dhtreichler.com . This was probably our…
On this particular trip we were visiting Firenze as a staging place for our anniversary trip to Tuscany. We arrived from Rome on a TrenItalia express train from Rome Centrale which took about an hour and thirty minutes. We spent two nights at Hotel Paris, Via dei Banchi 2 Tel +39-055280281 www.parishotel.it, email: Info@parishotel.it. We like Hotel Paris because on an earlier trip we arrived late and the only room available…
We had roughly twenty-four hours to show friends what we like so much about the magical city on the Tiber River. The overnight flight from the US brought us to Leonardo Da Vinci Airport early enough that we were able to check into Hotel Mozart, Via del Greci 23B, Roma, 00187, tel: +39-063-600-1915, which is between Piazza Popolo and the Spanish Steps. Piazza Popolo contains the Flaminio Obelisk, which was built in…