Blogs from Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, Europe - page 2

We took the slow road to Venice. One of the joys of traveling by care is that you come across gems like the castle in a little place called Soave and the castles of Romeo and Juliet. One of the many towns that has its centre inside a wall with a castle on top of a hill. We headed up the path to check out the castle. We were the only ones at the castle. However it was 11.30 close to closing time. We bought our tickets from a lady who lived up at the castle. She wasn't all that happy to hand over a couple of tickets. The other lady at the inside the castle was even more reluctant to let us wander around. She trailed after us jangling a very large bunch of keys. ... read more

Our first full day in Vicenza began with a delicious breakfast - fruit, cereal, toast, biscuits, yoghurt and the best scrambled eggs I’ve ever had. We headed down into the town and with the expert map-drawing skills of our host, made it quite easily to the parking lot. On her advice we walked to the Teatro Olimpico and bought ourselves a day pass to many of Vicenza’s attractions. The Teatro was rather beautiful and very well preserved. We then walked across to the Museo civico Palazzo Chierati. More religious paintings which have now become a blur of bored-looking Madonnas, dead looking matyrs and fat babies. Onwards we went to the Tempio di Santa Corona which was undergoing some serious renovations. We continued to Museo Naturalistico Archeologico. The natural history part of this museum was a little ... read more

Week number 3… Getting acquainted to a normal summer schedule here, where I work 4 days of the week and have off on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Not that bad. Pretty much I hang out with the kids in the morning by going to one of the parks in town, then we go back to the house where I make some lunch and they take a nap for a couple hours. From 3pm until the rest of the day I have off, although I usually join the family for dinner/hanging out. I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before, but wow it’s taken some adjusting to taking care of kids again. My patience has been tried on more than one occasion, and I forget how much energy they have at all times of the day and ... read more

We left Matteo's appartment in Milan and headed to Venice for the night and then from there to Florcence he helped us book hostels and even gave us not one but three maps of florence to help us on our way when we arrived in the station Katie went to the washroom Feeling confident, Lynsey went to ask information about where on our map the hostel could be located the woman at the desk looked at the address and tried to locate it on the map before saying "it isnt here" Lynsey responded with a puzzled look as we had already booked it, it definately did exist then she talked slowly again with big sympthetic eyes saying "you do know you are in Venice now right? this is a map of Florence...." good. go us! just ... read more

Last Day & Night in Venice Robert and I woke up to the wonderful view from our room of the Grand Canal. Went off to view the Doges Palace - what a sight! I still can't get over how much these men revered themselves. A thunderstorm came through while we were in the palace. Went back to our room for couple of hours and then decided to go have a cocktail before getting ready for dinner and a gondala ride. Robert had washed all of his undies which he had hanging from the shower curtain rod - picked them up and hung them in the closet for when the maid came in - no white trash in this hotel! Went for drinks - this bartender makes a mean cosmo! during our drinks, Venice was hit with ... read more