Grand Palazzo Carpegna

... Drive to Siene - 9/24 Hotel: Relais Vignale - 5 nights Visit Siene, Assisi, Spoleto, Cinque Terra, etc Drive to Rome 9/29 Hotel: Grand Hotel Palazzo Carpegna Visit Rome 10/3 drive Rome to Florence Drop off rental car Fly to Atlanta through Paris

... clothing and was cranky from lack of sleep. But we did get a short tour of the residential area of Rome. Our hotel (Grand Hotel Palazzo Carpegnia Rome) was very nice. But a bad spoiled way to start off this trip. Who knows how junky our other ...

... ; And lastly a quick stop at the Colosseum.  This was the disappointing part of the day, because although the Colosseum looks very grand from the outside, there was no provision in our tour to view the inside.  It’s nearly as good as the ...

... , or the shorter but windy road. False alarm. The road wasn't too bad and after stopping briefly in Frontino, we followed the signs toward Carpegna. As the crow flies, Le Querce, our B&B for four nights, is only a couple of km. from Frontino, and it's ...

As the plane descends into Rome, the captain awakes you by announcing clear, sunny skies and 12 Celsius weather. The Italian man sitting to your left awakes with a start, and you can't help but admire his ability to sleep through an 11 and a half hour ...

With today being our last full day in Rome, we had to make it count.  We woke up early and headed straight for the Coliseum as we hadn’t been over to that side of town yet.  We were approached by LOADS of tour operators trying to sell us ...

Today was an early rise for us as we had a lot of traveling ahead of us.  It was today that made me really thankful that Ryan agreed to drive in Italy!  We first drove 2.5 hours down to Pompeii which was the easy part.  We spent a few ...

Today was the day we were dreading this whole trip:  Laundry day!  Luckily for us we found a Laundromat just down the road from our hotel, so we bagged all our stuff up and went down there expecting to spend the next few hours waiting and ...

Today we made our way to Rome.  It was about a three hour drive, so we started the day off with another great Hilton breakfast and then hit the road at about 11am.  The road was almost completely highway, so it was a nice easy drive, until we ...