http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Liguria/Sanremo/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Italy , Liguria , Sanremo en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:07:03 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:07:03 UTC Things are moving fast after a little scare about being able to get into Italy with an eight month round trip ticket bought long ago in the dreamy days of work VISArsquos andhelliphellip.well quite a lot of things actually. But needless to say I made it from Chicago to Frankfurt and then Frankfurt to Milano with out a hitch. The German customssecurity even let me through the airport wi http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Sanremo/blog-344387.html As happy as we all were to be back together the week has been a rough one. Jackrsquos foot which we were until Monday morning we thought was sprained was in fact broken and he returned to us with a HUGE plaster cast. Several company members took turns with a vicious stomach bug. With all the drama we still had to crunch to work out the last couple shows and get them on tape for archives. It http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Sanremo/blog-344383.html Had a very quiet weekend. Went to a neighboring town with Jack Imperia and started joking around about a travel show hosted by Tiny Tim. All three of us me Jack and Laura went to Nice Satuday for the morning and afternoon. Nothing too eventful went shopping with Laura Jack sat on the beach and read we did see the silliest Michael Jackson impersonator think dirty Mic Jagger with old ta http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Sanremo/blog-344376.html Flew into Nice. It was lovely. Got my anual beggining of summer sunburn. Took the train to San Remo. Most of the people here all 140 of us are really lovely. There are SO many diffrent accents Don't really have the proper time to describe everything that I've done all the people I've met. Completed the teacher training today and found out I'm off to Milan. I'll be there for two weeks http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Sanremo/blog-284741.html We needed to do some washing so went into San Remo A10 a load wash only. This is bedlam. Cars and scooters darting everywhere so we decided to park the car ASAP. We drove into what looked like a multi level carpark but in front of us was a closed gate then we discovered it was automatic. We had to hop out and the car was taken by machine to be slotted into the car parks. But San Remo is just http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Sanremo/blog-280373.html After several more hours on the expensive toll roads we start to climb up into the hills behind San Remo on the Italian side of the French boarder along a very narrow very windy roadhellipscary. Our little apartment is typical of the others a little maze of rooms with rounded ceilings and white washed walls. I had to do a little housekeeping at first. I think when Nonna fell off the perch the http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Sanremo/blog-280292.html hey allI'm so sorry i have been so slack with blogs and promise a long one with lots of photos next week when i return from San Remo to Juan Les Pins.I left Reims sadly having had a fun food and friend filled 2 weeks there. Gill was the perfect hostess and we had a ball doing all those things that we love cooking shopping chatting reading drinking champagne that are made so much better w http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Sanremo/blog-95562.html I awoke to the high pitched hum of Vespas buzzing under our hotel window. Africa had the hippo honk as its lullaby Italy the Vespa. Frankie and I slept in both of us exhausted from the travel of the previous days. We were greeted by an overcast day. After a continental breakfast in our hotel morning room overlooking the Mediterranean Sea we drove up the coast towards France then inland t http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Sanremo/blog-66544.html Our 4 week intense ACLE orientation in the beautiful coastal town of Sanremo Genoa. Genoa is a city and a seaport in northern Italy the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Sanremo/blog-65555.html First time to Italy. It was kind of strange after being in France for so long when we crossed over the border and I realized I could no longer communicate whatsoever http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Sanremo/blog-58379.html