Hard to believe that our last blog entry was in October of 2024. Let me assure everyone that we returned too the US at the end of October, 2024 and stopped in New Orleans for my high school reunion. The … Continue reading →
This may be a long blog entry. We are three days behind. Shannon has such great things planned for us, several times a day, that sometimes we just don’t have time to blog for awhile. On Monday, Day two of … Continue reading →
Yesterday was our tour of Palermo. Our guide was Fabrizio and he was terrific. There were only 11 of us in the group so Fabrizio was able to wait for me between stops. The tour took about an hour longer … Continue reading →
Yesterday, Rod and Jim picked us up and drove us to Florence to the airport. We caught a thirty-five minute flight to Rome and then an hour flight to Palermo. A driver from our hotel, Delle Vittorie Boutique Hotel, picked … Continue reading →
This is our last full day in Tuscany. After breakfast Alan wanted to walk the 2 1/2+ miles along the wall that surrounds the old city of Lucca. The wall is very wide and was built in Medieval times when … Continue reading →
Today we (Alan, Jim, Rod and I) drove to Cremona, Lombardy to see the Stradivarius Museum. It was a multimedia, very modern museum with many visual displays and a fine collection of Stradivarius violins. On the way we went through … Continue reading →
Today, after breakfast, Jim and Rod picked us up and we drove for maybe an hour to San Gimignano, known the City of Towers. In the Middle ages and beyond rich merchants tried to outdo each other by building towers, … Continue reading →
After three days of single destination flights and overnight stays at airport hotels, we landed in Florence. Our good friends Jim and Rod who live in Lucca picked us up and brought us there and to our hotel the Ilaria … Continue reading →
Day 24 October 19 At last, we saw Ho Chi Minh City with very little traffic. The trick is to be on the road at 5:30 AM! We left Vietnam as we had arrived, on a Japan Airline plane. Leaving … Continue reading →
Day 23, October 18 Today was our second cooking lesson in Vietnam. We wanted to see the difference between Northern and Southern cooking, so we decided to take a lesson in each area. We were picked up at 8 by … Continue reading →
