Santoli Porretta Terme

The staff at Villa Moorings was so helpful and pleasant during our stay--from arranging transportation to suggesting restaurants...they even made arrangements for me when an unexpected medical need arose.
The B&B was beautiful, clean and quiet, the view from our room was great, and the breakfast was excellent!
The customer service and hospitality were greatly appreciated--and a welcome change from other experiences we had while in Italy...

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I went out for drinks with some friends and met a group of American soldiers stationed in Italy. It was a ton of fun.

I cleaned the apartment (much needed) in preparation for my upcoming visitors J

I went to my first football match… Napoli vs. Firenze! Of course a trip to the market was a must to get the appropriate Fiorentina gear. The energy in the stadium made ...

Short train ride from Florence after a hair raising trip trying to return the rental car in confusing, congested and traffic restrictied Florence (don't rent a car downtown go to the airport). Bologna is an university town (even Johns Hopkin has a campus). Very historical town with a great plaza area like most towns and a great antique market.

... Anyway after much driving we met a local who understood English… unfortunately he seemed only able to say he understood English .. And with us asking for the sea and him agreeing with everything.. It was more sea..si sea.. Si….very confusing…anyway put feet in a creek which seemed to be heading for the sea… and called it quits…..

The rain picked up again and it was a bit of a difficult drive for Geoff to make it to a town ...

... since January of this year. With 8 cylinders being made on the ground floor and 12's on floor two. Yes we saw a couple new 458 Italia's running around testing in preparation of production later this or early next year.... But we had seen nothing yet.

It is clear that no team, Porche, BMW, Mercedes, Audi, or anyone spends as much on racing technology as Ferrari. Remember, the road cars were conceived in ...

... is actually the same bus we just got off of, the guy just had to turn around and I guess he didn't think we were going to get back on. So anyway, it took us about an hour to get to our hotel after we got off the train (which was delayed by two hours) but we made it. As we check in i notice that there are six slots with room keys behind the front desk that are not numbered but have names of famous artists. We give the ...

The train to Florence again was quite short and cheap! We arrived first thing in the morning and found our hostel quite easily, only two blocks from the main train station. We were expecting it to be in a shady area but it turned out to be hotel row. It wasn't the crazy party scene that lonely planet described but it was great as far as hostels go. Free breakfast (omelettes, french toast...), free internet, free walking tours from very ...

... to myself. I also stopped by the Venus de Milo, the Napoleonic quarters, to name a couple. There was SO MUCH to take in!! Sarah Dawn, they had this beautiful vanity and chair that was gorgeous and you would probably want it. It used to belong to one of the queens.... I don't remember which one. I took a picture of it for you! :) After lunch we went....trying to remember where we went....sometimes the days all slide together...OH! The Sacre Coeur. It ...

... in Moscow’s Red Square in anticipation of a public anti-government demonstration and coming face-to-face with Hitler’s last surviving bodyguard at the site of his Berlin bunker, to name but three. But never, ever would I have imagined that I’d get to tour the manufacturing plant for Ferrari.

After leaving the factory we went to the nearby Galleria Ferrari, the museum open to members of the public. Name any generation of Formula One ...

... thing while we were there. From the pool to the chairs we went all day long...and because I was wearing my latex suit I only got a tiny bit of sunburn. While the accommodations were not the best we still had a nice time in Capri. This morning we needed to have our luggage at the lobby by 7:30 so that the porters could come and pick it up so we could make the 9:10 hydrofoil to Naples. No problem there. We got everything all set and ...