Citta Hotel Livorno

... and attached it to A-frames while workers removed soil from the non-leaning side and created a counter subsidence to the lean. While the famous lean “lost” 40cm during this project, the per-year slippage has been arrested and the Leaning Tower will stay at 4.1 meters of “lean.”

Despite feeling off, it was great for me to see the Leaning Tower again – and great for Murray, too. It is funny to ...

partie tot ce matin pour faire les 4.5 heures de train entre milan et pise, nous avons traverser plusieurs petit tunel. le paysage de la toscanne est beaucoup moins plat que ce que nous avons vue du nord-est de l'italie.

une fois nos bagage depose a l'auberge, on est partie vers la fameuse tour de pise. effectivemnt, elle ...

Cinque Terre photos here:
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Stayed at Affittacamere Patrizia Hostel in Rio Maggiore in Cinque Terre and wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
When we got to the Hostel it was just an office and no one was there. Our keys were stuck to the door with instructions on how to get to our dorm room. There was another set of keys there too so we could have taken those too and ...

We are finally home and it is actually Nov. 20th. We finally got in last night around midnight and could not download anything for the last several days because WiFi is too advanced for the small town we were in. It was the most relaxing of all the ...

I have resolved to try and keep this blog more up-to-date.
So much has happened since late July that i wont even start writing it down, but to summarise our drive as follows:
Arcachon
Bordeaux
Flo rac (Ardeche)
Montpellier where the family ...

... and costume designer from the tv hit series "Dancing with the Stars".

Before retiring, we enjoyed a late evening glass of Limoncello on our balcony with the dimmly lit Italian coastline appearing to move slowly northward as the Ruby quietly but sternly cut a southern path through the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Tomorrow, we'll see ya in the port city of Civitavecchia, the gateway to Rome!

Buona Notte! Rick & Elsie!

Messina, Sicily & sea day

After a little bit of a rough sea (meaning you could barely feel the movement in this larger ship), we woke up to another gorgeous morning. We passed Stromboli around 9am, gently smoking away. Stromboli is a volcano off the coast of Sicily that has been erupting several times a day for at least 2000 years, and scientists think it has probably been erupting for 5000 years. There is a town at the ...

... no train station in sight, i realized i was on the wrong bus! omfg. i tried to ask for help, but no one spoke any english! the bus driver would have nothing to do with me due to the fact i'm a "stupeed amereekan." i bolted off the bus, ran across some dirt field, hopped on another bus going in the opposite direction, and prayed to the gods that this one would get me at least back to where i came from. soon enough, things started to seem familiar and ...

... your eyes to the infinity point ahead, you wouldn't want to have epilepsy driving through there! Eventually we saw the light at the end of the tunnel and another overhead led sign warning us of pluie (if that's how u spell it), rain! We couldn't believe it, the weather had been grand on the other side. How could 11km make so much difference!? We drove out of the tunnel into Italy and lashing rain. Needless to say we missed the stunning scenery, not even ...

... we've made it only just. We arrive a little early in the port of Livorno and have to wait another hour before boarding the ferry. At a little after 8pm we are allowed on board and shown to our parking place. We take all of our luggage for the night since we are not allowed in the holds anymore. We are assigned a cabin and put our luggage in it. Although hiring a cabin for the night is a very ...