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…
We have been to Venice several times now, winding our way through the maze of streets, discovering something new at every turn. But this time we were with friends. Because the temperature was in the 90s and the sun very intense, several of us bought hats, applied more sunscreen and bought bottles of water. We also took a ring route around the northern part of the city rather than plunging into the…
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…