Our Rendezvous with Rick Steve’s Italian Love Child: The Cinque Terra August 18th 2008 So if Rick Steve has had any significant impact on world traveling, it has been the creation of thriving tourist destinations out of five old fishing villages in the Italian Rivera: The Cinque Terra. These villages were almost entirely undiscovered until Rick Steves put them on the map. Now they bustle with sunburned tourists from all over the world.
Don’t get me wrong, I am definitely not com ... read more
Europe » Italy » Liguria » Cinque Terre Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more
Hi Friends and Family,
First off, we want to thank Brett Meier for that nickname (The Little Kisses), although like any eight-year-old boy, he said it in a taunting manner and with voiced indignation, what Brett didn't anticipate was that David and I actually liked the nickname! We are going to dare to go where no school-aged-boy has gone before and represent "cooties" with honor!
We are a little over a month out until our European Vacation, hopefully with adventures enough to make even Clark Griswold jealous (although Chelsea hates frivolous destruction, so we hope to keep that to a ... full info