Travel Blogs from Montecatini Terme, Italy
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Traveling through mountains
... are not quiet :) All of a sudden at 10:30 it became very quiet. Curfew and room check was happening. Next day is our free day with possiblities of walking and taking the funicolare to Montecatini Alto and an optional excursion to ...
Finally in Italia
... our destination. We flew from Nashville to DC to Frankfurt to Florence. This afternoon we strolled through Montecatini Terme - a bellissimo Tuscan spa town. We hit the local marketplace, checked out some of the local spas ...
On prend l'eau !!!
... elle résiste, mais on se dit « tiens c'est mal parti ! ». Avec la fatigue on devient fétichiste ! Bref on prend la direction de Florence, on s'arrête à Montecatini, sous une avalanche de pluie... Serait-ce l'amulette ??? ...
Dinner At The Villa Pasquini
OK....Now I can die !!!! We went to the villa tonight for a true Tusacan dinner !! What a night, It was just something out of a movie. Incredible food, incredible place. All the food and wine that they served was made and grown right on the villa. We had ...
Day 48
We went to Florence today, and I knew that taking the car would be a challenge. I am used to the city, I know it pretty well, but I mostly know the center of the city and how to get around on foot and by bus. There is a lot of directional knowledge that ...
Day 49
... three (bro, cousin, girl), effectively emptying my phone card. Quality minutes, though. I now know where and when I will be staying in Italy for the week with the cuz, so I can start that ball rolling whenever I want (tomorrow, please). After I got off ...
Day 47
This morning we got to breakfast at 8, and it was made up of a selection of rolls, croissants, cereal, prosciutto (ham slices), salami, formaggio, cafe, juice and water. We headed down to the car rental place at around 10 and picked up our car. It is a ...
Day 5
Good breakfast and collect bags of drinks, fruit and sandwiches for the journey, paid the hotel 29€. Train to the station up the top of the town. Desenzano to Montecatine 3 trains. All tickets in hand. First one to Verona, second to Padua then to ...
A Day of Eating, Italian Style
... and is said to be served in moderation on ice cream or as a sweet. After the food tour, we headed to our hotel in Montecatini, Hotel Torreta (http://www.hoteltorretta.it/en_benvenuti.html). It was so neat! It was a family-operated hotel and they took very ...
Day 49 Florence, Firenze
Just having a soothing cup of peppermint tea, our guide Monica is having a beer. It was a big day. We took a very crowded train to Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance, and met our local guide, Michael...a Canadian who landed in Florence. ...
Tallinn – Milan Bergamo – Montecatini
... kiirtee Bergamost Montecatinini läks meile maksma 21.70 eurot. Kiirus loeb. Natukene peale kella 18 jõudsime sihtpunkti – Montecatini Terme linnakesse. Saime kätte oma 3* hotellitoa. Tuba selline väiksemat sorti ja aknal on luugid ees – ...
pizza at Pisa
Thanks for all the feedback. It is nice to know you are reading it. Today we left nice Nice quite early, heading for montecatini in Tuscany. On the way we stopped at Pisa to see the leaning tower. It really is quite spectacular. It has great buildings ...
Day 2 - Meeting up with the Group
... and again the Leaning Tower and got the worlds best deal on a rolex (15 euros). From here we left for the town of Montecatini Terme where our hotel will be for most of the trip. To our excitement it was much nicer than the Grand Hotel Duomo in ...
Ugh!
We arrived at the hotel around 8:30 at night. the lobby was very pink. Pink couches, pink paintings and pale pink wallpaper. We had time to check in and change before dinner. Mihaela said it was buffet style. Since it wasn't going to be fancy, and I ...
Day of Surprises - Pisa/Monticatini
... bar, grilled items with vegetables and potatoes. They also had a pasta station and sandwiches. Yummy...as usually. Only in Italy can you find good food at a rest stop! After lunch we headed to Pisa. Just as we got there ...
Day 47 France to Italy
... ever seen. We stopped counting tunnels after 80 or so and the bridges. We have moved from France to Italy, to Montecatini Terme, a spa town in the hills west of Pisa. Terrific place full of old hotels. The biggest and best spa ...
Under the Tuscan sun - sometimes
... via San Gimignano, another cute little walled citadel more popular with visitors than locals, we headed off to the spa town of Montecatini Terme where we had arranged our own little Tuscan villa. A very relaxing four days driving around, having a swim, ...
Venice to Montecatini Terme & Pisa
... Venice to Montecatini Left Venice early about 7.30am & we had to have our luggage outside our doors by 6am so Nico could get the ...
Day 48 Attack of the umbrella men
Pisa was the destination for the morning with an afternoon visit to Lucca. Buses are no longer allowed into Pisa centre, so we transferred from the bus to a road train, that takes you past the touristy ordinary roads leading into town. One of the ...
Assisi bound
... will tour the cathredral and then spend some time in the town. We had a beautiful day in Assisi and are heading to our hotel in Montecatini. We will have some dinner and time to explore the town. On the bus, there were some small prizes from the store we ...
Are we there yet?
... We're in Italy, people. You can sleep when you're dead! We left their butts behind and hit the town. We wandered all over Montecatini for hours. We found two cinemas (there was an Italian film festival at one but we didn't have the time); a gorgeous park ...
San Donato & Montecatini Alto
... about the rain any more :) So we ate a fabulous lunch, drank way too much, did a little shopping, and headed back to Montecatini in the afternoon. A few of us broke off from the group and decided to explore the spa town of Montecatini. I heard ...
It's my party... !
We're back in lovely Montecatini after having spent the entire day walking the Cinque Terre. We're famished! After dropping off bags of cookies that we bought in Vernazza, we headed out for what would turn out to be a fabulous all-seafood-all-the-time ...
Firenze!
We were up very early today. The tour bus had to be off the town streets by 7:20 for the school buses to travel so it was up with the birds today. We went into Florence and grabbed a quick bite before starting our tour of the city. Car a and I had the ...
Firenze
Today we visited Florence and the Duomo! What a beautiful church! We saw the bridge Ponte Vecchio over the Arno River. And we saw the leather demonstration at the Leonardo leather shop. It has been a very hot 3 days here and we are hoping that the ...
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