Category: Italy

Breakfast We had an early breakfast with Nicole's parents at Hotel Casci and then we checked out and had Paolo call us a taxi to take us to the SITA station. Bus to Greve We took the 9:30 SITA bus to Greve. On the bus I tried to...

We dropped off a bag of clothes for laundering by Hotel Casci. The price is reasonable and it's convenient and that way you don't need to bring as many clothes. We had our usual breakfast and after breakfast we asked Paulo (the...

The food market In Florence, we took Nicole's parents to see the amazing, huge indoor food market at Piazza del Mercato Centrale. This place is amazing - meat, produce, and seafood everywhere, and the biggest wheels of parmigiano...

A long day... We were very good and got up early so that we could have breakfast and make the 9:07 Circumvesuviana train from Sorrento to Napoli (Naples). We made it and arrived in Naples at around 10:07 with plenty of time to...

This was the day that we planned to go to Pompei. It almost didn't happen. We walked over to the Sorrento Circumvesuviana train station, ready to buy tickets to Pompei Scavi (Pompei Excavations). Note, you want Pompei Scavi, not...

Breakfast We began the day by having a lovely breakfast @ Hotel Antiche Mura with American faire like scrambled eggs, soft (not crispy) bacon, and OJ that tastes like OJ as well as Italian cold cuts and cheeses and bread and...

Breakfast At Hotel Lirico, we had a breakfast with nice rolls and butter and soft cheese, packets of salami, and cappucino. We watched a little family of 4 who we guessed were Spanish & German. We checked out. At the hotel...