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Verona, Venice and Monterosso
Ciao to you all from Monterosso.Have been very busy since our last entry. According to Chris I lost one in Venice. He did. Timed out before he saved. Many new and varied experiences, left fair Verona and headed to Venezia, that dreaded autobarn again (by the way these are Chris's words not mine better typer so got the job). Paul said take some …
Looking for Audrey Hepburn
... no English but tried his darnedest to communicate with us. As best I can figure, the local motorcycle group meets at his bar every week. We had an excellent lunch prepared by his sister who came and checked on us every few minutes to make sure we were enjoying the food, We were and probably wouldn’t have admitted if we weren’t as she looked as if she could take us all on at once in a bar room brawl. She was VERY ...
Maratea - A hilltop town with a difference
... bus system, as Maratea was made up of a few little hamlets, with the pretty port at the bottom, the beach on the next cove, then the station and finally the historical centre, which is where we stayed. The buses ran every hour and went on a continuous loop through all these destinations for 60cents each. So we got to enjoy the wonderful beach in fiumicello, checked out the port and of course came to and from the station! At the beach we also managed to get the use of 2 ...
Praja
... us that she in fact did not have a private room for any of the nights, her bad. She offered to drive us around to find another place, but she knew and we knew, that we wouldn't do that because accommodation in Praja was fairly expensive. So we agreed to take the 6 bed dorm.
She was really unprofessional and didn't explain anything to us. All we worked out was that we couldn't take the boat cruise that ...
A day of Leisure at Lake Maggiore
My last full day of the trip :-(
Such a beautiful part of the world - shame I'm not doing the holiday extension at Lake Como, but it will be nice to see my family when I get back home.
Today we have an island tour of 3 of the islands on Lake Maggiore - Isola Madre, Isola Bella & Isola dei Pescatori.
We had a latish departure of around 10.30am, so time for a lay-in and a leisurely breakfast. (Mental note, ...