Whiskers' Guestbook

Fireman!!
Do you think it is you Grahame and not the LIFTS at all - maybe you need to find a cheap Fireman's outfit in one of the many special shops you seem to find! hahahahaha.

Mum
Yay, finally a photo of the birthday hat. Love it!! Love the leopard-print band..very cool.

Love the photo title - there IS always a cat
What is it about Benvie's on holiday and cats? Pula looks like a cute place! What is the Croatian equivalent of the daily gelato and margherita pizza gonna be? For me, it was the Croatian calamari...scrummy!

Having fun touring with you.
Exhausted climbing those lovely mountains,you both should return home very fit,not that you were idle when you both left.We met your neighbours today Graham & wife at the hospital were were there for a session for young doctors to train in mine and Graham's and 4 other patients with similar. Complaints as ours,we there 2 hours,both of us were worn out by the end especially. Graham. We will be going round to visit them at a later date, his wife is really lovely,Stan has. Put some more grass seed on lawn 2 as the other lot got washed away,all is. Going o,k and hopefully the rain will not be too heavy this week-end.Typing this on our I.pad and keep hitting the wrong keys have to try going slower lol.Take care and look forward to travelling with you next location love meg and stan.

What a lovely photo
Nice to see historic buildings remaining in good condition. A lovely shot.

Photo of Ma in her birthday hat please! :-)

Bigger Villa!
You might need to get a bigger villa because as part of our Lotto winning plan we are going to move to Italy and buy a villa...marketing plans can be run by us and Lachie can provide the cuteness factor.

Happy birthday Gretchen
What a way to remember your special birthday and we feel that we have celebrated it with you and so look forward to your adventures,great reading.stan says that with all the new members still joining the club our club room will be bursting at the seams lol. I am still alive still get a lot of pain but next Saturday morning go to the hospital to participate with young doctors who are learning about my complaint lets hope they have some solutions that may help me.I look forward to the next episode of your travels take care love meg.

Dream retirement
At last my sister is on the same wavelength. How about we sell up our million dollar mansions and move to a four-apartment villa in either Tuscany or Umbria? That way we can enjoy the good life and have an income from the apartments. I'll do the garden, you do the accommodation and the artist-in-residence can take the art classes for wealthy tourists. How about it? The only problem will be how to use Winston's card. I'm off to see the real estate agent.

lodging in venice & agrigento
G&G Given your suggestion about spending time in Agrigento I went back and re-read your post, as well as the prior days post. Despite the trials with the lift & car park, I will look for the Costazzurro. We need an inexpensive place to stay. It finally dawned on me that you are booking your stays as you proceed through the trip. I should have passed on our finds up the Adriatic (although it sounds like you booked them already). We aren't going along the instep, but cutting across the ankle via Potenza. We found a little place north of the Gargano in Termoli. We still looking for a place near San Ramino/Rimini, but have a good place scoped out for Venice off AirBnB with Goretta (AirBnB #390282 ). Although outside of Venice, its less urban and not too far from the train (10k) to Venice (€2.20 pp one way). Afraid that's our last stop before heading back to Munich. Sorry, I should have connected the dots sooner and gotten the Termoli/Venice suggestions to you sooner. Enjoy the day. Grazie mille, Michael

Thanks!
Grahame & Gretchen, appreciate your postings, especially about lodgings & sites. We planning a much less ambitious (three week) trek from Munich to Sicily and back for September. Don't know what protocols are for mentioning names of lodging establishments, but would be helpful. I had already discovered Fausto's place in Monreale - which looks delightful. Your tip on the Best Western in Siracusa was quite helpful. (We've been using a web site called "AirBnB". It looks like you used mostly "Bookings".) Looking forward to what you discover heading up the Adriatic coast, as that will be the last leg of our adventure. Respect your ambition. We've done 3 months before - in a Rialta caravan across the States, but 7 months of new beds every few nights is daunting. Wow! Regards ~ Michael (in the Finger Lakes - upper NY State, US)