La Vedetta Hotel Livorno

... for most of the journey.

After getting back to Florence and walking from the train station back to the hotel, we felt a little better (fresh air?). We got back to our room around 4:00pm and just relaxed for several hours, reading, snoozing, going online. I finally started feeling hungry later afternoon, but not Murray! Around 7:30pm, we felt well enough to take a long walk around our neighborhood. We found another great ...

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 ...

... for packing into bike bags.

Waiting for the gangway to slowly open, it finally clashed against the shore and spit us out. I felt like Jonah being vomited out of a whale. It’s as if someone said: ‘here you are, now deal!’

The ferry arrived at 5:30pm - right when the sun was setting. So there was no time to find camping out of town. We would need accommodations almost ...

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 ...

... Critic member boards. Except that our steward forgot to give us a card telling us to set our clocks forward! So we were an hour late for champagne and goodies. Not to worry, there was plenty left. The party was hosted by 2 ladies who often travel together in their gigantic suite and even bigger wrap around deck. Swank! I could stand going around the world in a room like that!

Since today was one of our very few sea days, we ...

... The city is beautiful, and the buildings are amazing. It is a very tourist aimed city, with lots of shops selling leather, pizza and the most amazing looking ice cream you have ever seen! The only problem being, that with the current exchange rate going through the roof, Florence becomes extremely expensive!Unfortunately the statue of David (David and Goliath) by Michelangelo was closed for maintenance (they where washing it...) so did not get to see the statue.Florence has ...

... and strangely enough I had managed to charge over $400.00 while at sea...uh oh. Yep, I met up in Barcelona with one of their notorious pickpocket schemers and after I realized what happened to my wallet can absolutely pinpoint the exact scenario of where and when it happened. So I now have no driver's license, money or credit cards, but not to worry. I do have an international cell phone so I called my sister and ...

... a lot to say. Mr Scruff doesn't seem himself again the last few days. No idea what it is, he's really sleepy but wired too, his hips seem really stiff, he didn't want to come on his walk this morning and had to be persuaded with his ball. I've given him a remedy (selenium) and hope he'll be better when we go to the beach in a minute. I'm hoping it's just a bit of stress brought on by all the excited Italians and thunderstorms. The weathers still cloudy ...