President Hotel Viareggio

... and limited to pastry or pizza at 5pm, but I found Brasserie La Loggia near the station that had a full menu all day.
Walked in to order a pasta and was amazed and delighted that they also had a display case full of Belgian, German, Dutch and other quality beers.
Had a La Trappe with my bolognese. Even though it's made in the Netherlands it was still a good tripel.
Was ready to go after that but ...

... Leaning Tower began to lean after its architect had completed only three tiers of the building. Most believe that the tower began leaning because of "shifting soil" – and then it continued to incline about 1mm every year since it was built! In 1998, however, the City of Pisa (realizing, I think, that if the tower ever fell over, their tourism industry would be severely curtailed!) wrapped cables around the third story of the ...

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 ...

... market (without the sampling) with lots of lovery deli's, cafe's and patisseries. Ofcourse we had to buy the local pastry called a buccellato which is kind of a cross between a biscuit and a fruit loaf... yummy with the morning coffee.

Before too long Kim pointed out her favorite bar from last time and pull me in to join her in a wine or 3. The tapas were as good as Kim had ...

Wow! I've been so busy lately and now that I have time to update my blog I've got a lot of ground to cover!! My roommates and some of our friends went to the beautiful seaside town of Viareggio for the day on Saturday to see the Carnivale festival there! It was amazing. We got there just as the parade was starting and walked along with it down to the beach. It had been raining earlier but the sun came out just as we were trying to take pictures of the beach :) While we were ...

... step in dog poop or alerting me that I'm headed down a dead-end road? It's a weird feeling. In Viareggio, as in the rest of Italy, they are big on conservation and recycling. My hotel has all lights activated by motion sensors. At the gym yesterday the showers required you to put your membership ID into a slot in order to turn the water on! Fortunately they had a cold shower that I could use since I didn't have a card. It seemed like a great way to save water. Who knows, maybe ...

... camera for the rest of the trip, so we are hoping our photos don't suffer too much. Guess that we will just have to be more creative. We continued on our drive, but Glenn couldn't leave Italy with one last road stop espresso. Needless to say, when we finally made it home, it was a little difficult to sleep. The following evening we had to move house, into the centre of Antibes. It was the last thing we felt like after such a full on weekend, but to date our Italy side trip has been our highlight!

... and Lou had yet to buy the case of wine he was eyeing in the store before lunch. He decided to chance it, run to the store and meet us at the train station. What transpired after that felt like a scene from the movie. Without going into too much detail, picture this: Kelly and I checking our watches every two seconds while looking down the street trying to figure out where Lou was; Chris yelling at Kelly and me, warning us that the ...