Category: Travel

Today was the day of the wedding, but we were hoping to squeeze in a quick trip to San Gimignano and make it back in time for the wedding. After breakfast and after going down and up and down and up we found Jon & Ago in the...

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...