So sad! Tomorrow we leave Italy for Paris. We do not want to leave! It has been so wonderful and we have seen so much! Italy just seems to suit us. We have even said buonosera to our usual six o’clock on the dot eating time and have been eating at 8.30! We will miss…
Category: Travel
Ahhh Venezia – still so beautiful!
We left Rome this morning (so sad – we had an amazing time in so many ways!) and caught the fast train to Venice. Getting off at St Lucia and hopping on the vaporetto meant that all my beautiful memories of Venice from 1999 came flooding back. We are staying at Don Orione, a religious…
I don’t think we can top today…
Mass at St Peter’s Basilica would be amazing at anytime. The three hours we spent in the presence of Pope Benedict this morning was absolutely overwhelming, beautiful and unforgettable. I am still in shock I think – the Mass was an Ordination Mass so to see the whole thing is something that will stay with…
Too excited to sleep!
It is nearly 11.30pm here in Rome and we are too excited to sleep! We have to be up at 6am tomorrow because…. we are off to Mass. This is not just any Mass… Il Papa is presiding!! I organized this a while ago but it all became very real when we walked through some…
All checked in!
We are on our way! I got home from work at 12.15 and Bill had the bits of laundry done and the apartment spotless. Our car arrived at 3pm, we were in the security line at 4pm and here in the lounge by 4.30. We both love leaving super early for the airport so we…
Dario e sempre in ritardo!
The title of this post refers to about the only Italian I can remember after four years of learning it. I have not had time to brush up as much as I wanted to before we leave tomorrow for Europe.. eeek! Also, I am not sure how frequent my blog updates will be while we…
The Overnighters
Last weekend was somewhat somber as straight after work on Friday we headed out to Pennsylvania for Aunt Jean’s memorial service in Lancaster County. As it was all very last minute planning, it went well with us being able to get a decent Zipcar and also accomodation without fuss. We decided to drive there over…
Excited much?
Just over 3 weeks until we leave for Europe and everything is ready to go bar putting in our planned outfits. We have had some really exciting trip developments that I cannot wait to share along the way. We’re talking once-in-a-lifetime status. As Bill would say, we’re totally jazzed.
Now this is good mail…
It is not every day you get a letter postmarked from Hampton Court Palace! This was our membership pack for the Historic Royal Palaces which saves us some £’s for the palaces we want to visit while we are in London. We are positively jumping out of our skin and seriously counting down to the…
Love really is in the air…
One thing that put a smile on our faces on our flights of madness coming home was something special that Bill organized. On the ‘From the Heart’ Qantas radio station, you can email Qantas eight weeks before your flight and get a dedication played. So gorgeous Bill did that and got a dedication played to…