La Pisana Hotel Meuble
Travel Blogs from Viareggio
Days 11 and 12: Pisa, Florence and Rome
... those jackasses are everywhere. We kept walking and decided we had to get back to the train station to make our train. Two minutes later, Carleigh sees something shiny on the ground. Yep. A Euro dime. Every one of us got chills to the bone, and it took a while for mom to catch control. Love you Grandpa, glad you could join us in Miracle Square. Once we got back to the apartment, CJ had to do school work and I was feeling like relaxing with ...
Livorno, Italy
We woke up this morning and found ourselves in Livorno, Italy, the port city for Florence. It was amazing how smoothly the ship sailed overnight. I never even realized we were moving, nor did I feel any vibration as the ship docked. Pretty impressive!
After a buffet breakfast in the Oceanview, we showered shaved and met up with the group at 10:00 dockside for our morning adventure. We decided we would take it a bit easy today, and we hired a cab ...
Rough Seas; Calm "Cabin"
... that day as well and that he had hiked there and back. We did attempt to walk a bit of the distance the day before we left just to get a sense for what the hike might be like. It was a particularly wet, windy day so we didn’t enjoy it as much since we weren’t really prepared for it. Nonetheless I did manage to get some great photos of our village from that vantage point.
We also made it to Manarola the next day. Train strike did throw ...
Tale of Three Cities
... until you are sixty to travel. Travelling and trying to function in another culture is a broadening experience and the earlier you are broadened the better. We feel old by the end of the day, can only take a limited number of hours a day of new, strange and interesting things and then we are full up with stimulation. If we were ten or thirty years younger, I`m sure we could wring even more from this fabulous time we are having.
Not homesick but missing you all. Love, ...
THE MEDITERRANEAN SEAAAAAAA!
... very clean and all the seats looked new! Not worn at all! The headrests on the train seats were neat...they're curved to fit your head a little better and give you some support for the long ride sitting up! It was at this point that I figured out the easy way that train seats are very conducive to sleeping and taking really good naps! I slept the majority of the way, even though I'd wanted to see the countryside! I eventually woke up and saw the ...