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Here’s Tim enjoying a light lunch in Florence.
Oct 28th
Kitchen at the agriturismo.
Oct 26th
We had a nice kitchen in our apartment at the agriturismo...
Oct 26th
Vineyards near the agriturismo.
Oct 26th
We learned to talk with our hands, since we didn’t...
Oct 26th
View of the vineyards from our bedroom at the agriturismo.  ...
Oct 26th
This is the Ponte Vecchio Bridge in Florence.  It was the...
Oct 26th
It rained twice in 16 days.  The first time was when we were...
Oct 26th
This is the terrace of Jim and Deb’s apartment at the...
Oct 26th

Saturday night.

We’re home!   It seems odd that we woke up in Rome this morning and here we are now, in...
Oct 26th
Internet cafe computer won’t let me upload photos.  You’ll just have to wait.
Oct 23rd

Thursday

Tim here.   We had a wonderful time at an agriturismo near Greve in Chianti.  There are many of...
Oct 23rd

Thursday October 23

We are in Pitigliano tonight (as we were last night).  This is a totally cool place - an Estrucan...
Oct 23rd
Our rental car is an Alfa Romeo wagon, turbo-charged and 6...
Oct 20th
Montarosa, one of the 5 villages of Cinque Terra.
Oct 20th
This is Rosella, the owner of our apartment in Rome. She...
Oct 20th
A castle along the walk in Cinque Terra.
Oct 20th
The Leaning Tower of Pisa leans a lot more than I realized.
Oct 20th
The walk in Cinque Terra
Oct 20th

In Lucca

Hi - it’s Sonia!  We are just getting up on our second day in Lucca.  Yesterday we took a day...
Oct 20th

Saturday Oct 18

I’m actually writing this on Sunday morning from our B & B in Lucca.  We left Cinque Terra...
Oct 19th

Friday, Oct 17. Cinque Terra

We arrived in Cinque Terra about 5:00 yesterday.  We have two beautiful rooms in a B & B, with...
Oct 17th
Thursday morning.  We’ve packed up and left our Rome apartment. We’re now at an internet...
Oct 16th
Lots of very cool cars here.
Oct 15th
Restaurant in the lane leading to our apartment (which was...
Oct 15th
Cigarettes apparently don’t cause cancer in Europe; everyone smokes like a ham house.
Oct 15th
An Australian couple who sat next to us at dinner Tuesday...
Oct 15th
Colosseum at night. We saw it twice at night. Yesterday...
Oct 15th
Pantheon dome
Oct 15th
View from bedroom window of Rome apartment.
Oct 15th
Living room of Rome apartment. It has 2 bedrooms and 2...
Oct 15th
Tim and Sonia strolling in Paris near the Orsay Museum. ...
Oct 15th

A post from Sonia

I haven’t taken the time to do this for awhile, and wish I had!  I’m forgetting what we...
Oct 15th

Day 5 Rome

I think it’s Wednesday, but the days are getting a little jumbled up.  Sonia and I are...
Oct 15th

Days 3 and 4 Rome

Sunday started with a 4:30 wakeup call at our hotel in Paris and ended at midnight at our apartment...
Oct 13th

Day Two - Paris

We slept in until 9:30 and so got a late start to our day.  After breakfast at a little cafe, we...
Oct 12th
End of bike tour.   Sorry about the picture being turned 90...
Oct 12th

Day One - Paris

Day One in Paris has set the bar exceedingly high for the rest of the trip.  It was a beautiful day...
Oct 11th
 Tim and Sonia on Tim’s 60th birthday on August 14,...
Oct 5th

Sneak Preview

The video and photo are of the area we are staying in while in Rome. We’ll send our own...
Oct 5th
Warch Watch
Trastevere (via TurnHereFilms)
Oct 5th
Our Rome neighborhood
Oct 5th

Getting Started

Okay, here’s my blog!  Nothing interesting to say yet, since we are still at home preparing...
Oct 5th