Villa Fabbroni
Travel Blogs from Greve
Italian cooking
Cooking class The girls and I decided to take a cooking class while Paul and Xavier were at Wimbleton. Actually, I decided this is something I really wanted to do and my lovely daughters allowed me to conjole them into joining me. We started at 3 pm and we actually ate around 7:30. Ambitious menu? ABSOLUTELY! But that is how Italian's eat. …
Day 10: Florence
... Michelangelo, which is on the top of a hill and overlooks the entirety of Florence across the river. My God, was it beautiful. Not only could we see the whole city, but also tumbling Tuscan hills with Cyprus trees and an old city wall unrolling into the distance. Not a bad couple of hours to spend in the afternoon. The hike up to Piazzale Michelangelo was strenuous, so we took our time coming back down the hill and across the river on our way to Santa Croce, a cathedral that houses ...
Day 9: Florence
Today was a full walking day around Florence. The crowds here are worse than they've been anywhere so far, but it may be because it was a beautiful Sunday and it's a small city, so it feels more cramped. We started off by walking to the Duomo, which is the domed focal point of the city, with a tower, cathedral and baptistery. The cathedral was in mass when we were there, so we decided to come back another time to see the inside, ...
Team Schwartz
... and we didn't know the platform and our train left in 10 minutes. Paul, Xavier and Margs went to buy tickets and I went to find out which platform we would be on. Tickets in hand, we took off, running. Now, while I used to be a really good runner, I am the slowest one in the family these days. Imagine us running through the train station, dodging people, the big kids looking out for the younger ones, trying to get to platform 2E. After what ...
TUSCANA - I LOVE YOU
... the busy road towards the cities gates, confronted by roundabouts, signs in another language, watching out for vehicles, pedestrians, mopeds, he misses the parking area and kinda gets stuck in another street which is too hard to turn the bike around. So we (Neil following) ride into the busy city. Extremely steep slippery cobbled roads and tourists walking everywhere are a bit of a challenge, especially since we know "No vehicles allowed". So we stop in a piazza area, Neil ...