This morning we were up early to get everything together in time for Gabriele to come and do our check-out from the apartment at 10:00. He quickly looked the place over and then offered to drive us to the train…
Italy: Wine Festival in Chianti
We decided last night that we would go out to another one of the hill towns today, but we hadn’t decided for sure which one. So as we got ready this morning, we debated between San Gimignano and Chianti, both…
Italy: Lazy Afternoon in Siena
Today we woke up slowly. Probably a function of exhaustion from walking all day yesterday, coupled with the copious amounts of delicious Italian beer and pasta we ingested last night. As I’ve said before, we’re not “art people” and we…
Italy: David, Galileo, Michelangelo and Joshua Tree
We’d planned to get up early this morning and be at the Accademia when it opened to avoid the crazy-long lines. Buuuuut that was a lot to expect of me before 8am, so things didn’t exactly go down the way…
Italy: Trying to Make it to Florence
This morning we woke early to shower, finish packing and make sure we were on the vaporetto in time to make the 11:27 train to Florence. We planned to check out, grab a quick breakfast to go and be on…