June 19 On June 19, in Florence Italy, we boarded a big red train that would take us from Florence to Venice. One hour and fifteen minutes later we arrived in Venice. We walked from the train station to the water bus with our 4 suitcases, 4 backpacks, and two instruments; a ukulele and a …
Category: Europe
European Tour Part III
We arrived in the steamy capital of Italy and hopped a cab to our Airbnb. As the fairly young cabby looked at us over the top of his glasses he gave us Italian lessons, a sightseeing tour, lots of suggestions on where to eat gelato, which coffee places to avoid and where to find good …
European Tour Part II
We left off on our last post when we were house sitting in the little French village of Lerrain. We loved that experience and we are hooked on house sitting. If we could do that long term we would… but we have a boat to get back to! After leaving Lerrain we had a …
European Tour Part 1
In 2017 at Christmas time, we were chatting with our good friend Marianne McGriff. She was telling us about her plans with her husband, Carver, to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of D Day in Normandy in 2019. They go to Normandy regularly, leading trips wherein they trace Carver’s steps as an infantryman as he invaded …