Grand Hotel Plaza
Travel Blogs from Chianciano Terme
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 was feeling ******, I put on my sweat pants, Bears t-shirt and flip flops. It was luxurious! I felt …
Rain, Sleet, Snow, Fog
... it is where the Pope visits to place flowers at the statue of the BVM in front of the Spanish Embassy. I’ll make my way in that direction later this afternoon as I would like to make it to evening prayers at the Les Fraternites Monestiques de Jerusalem. I’ll recount that visit on my next blog. Paul will join me tomorrow and we’ll spend the evening in Rome before heading to London on Monday afternoon.
Hope you’re having a great ...
Car hire for 3 days over
... valley, locals walking around at night pre dinner chatting in the streets. Places dn,t open for dinner till 730 so we have had many late nights lately. Starts to get dark at 4.30 so hate to see what it's like in winter. We explored volterra more n the morning then drove to San gimignano, we just called it jimminey cricket, another hill town with 14 towers left standing out of 72. The views from the top of a old tower area was great, nick was ...
The Land of Chocolate
... should be since it comes from Perugia).
The festival itself was small so my friends and I explored the corridors of the city for a couple hours.
Sadly, there's not much else to say except I saw a man playing songs from "Amelie" on his accordion and my heart melted. ...
A Picture Perfect Town
... s a stunning and imposing monument but its most spectacular feature is its Gothic facade, which features glittering mosaics, marble relief carvings, and bright painted figures and glows golden in the sunlight. The interior of the cathedral is, honestly, nothing to write home about, but for one exception, the Chapel of San Brizio. Mostly painted by Luca Signorelli in the early 1500s, the entire room is frescoed with scenes from the New ...