Category: Europe 2012

Amalfi, Campania, Italy, Saturday, October 6, 2012 Today starts out as a lazy day. The Hotel Amalfi room is on the small side but nice and it was quiet last night. We get a good nights sleep and take our time getting ready, repacking everything for our move to the apartment. When we get downstairs, […]

Amalfi, Campania, Italy, Friday, October 5, 2012 Today we have a long travel day as we leave the Tuscany and Umbria area for the Amalfi coast. We start out by walking to the bus stop I scouted out which is close to the BNB. The funicular to the train station does not open until 0720 […]

Orvieto, Umbria, Italy, Thursday, October 4, 2012 We get up pretty early as the last bus in the morning for Bagnoregio leaves at 0750. We walk down to the bus station and I ask a driver where the bus for Bagnoregio departs and he points to an area across the street. We go there to […]

Orvieto, Umbria, Italy, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 We get up to catch the early bus to Bagnoregio, but Carol is still not feeling good so we decide to go tomorrow and try to tour a few sites in town today. Back to bed we go and wake back up around 1000. Her stomach issues have […]

Orvieto, Umbria, Italy, Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Happy Birthday to My Beautiful Wife. Should I tell her age, she is    Years young and can fill this in if she wants when she reads this. I love you honey and am glad we are sharing this amazing adventure. Our train does not leave until 1115 […]

Assisi, Umbria, Italy, Monday, October 1, 2012 Another month has gone by and we are still in Europe. Feeling lucky indeed. Today is a free day for us to choose what if anything we would like to do. After breakfast, we discuss it and think it would be nice to hike to the hermitage (Eremo […]

Assisi, Umbria, Italy, Sunday, September 30, 2012 Breakfast today is just alright with nothing special. There is some salami and a little ham but Carol does not like it. They have some fruit filled croissants which are not bad and a blackberry tart that is pretty good. There isn’t much else. After breakfast, we head […]

Assisi, Umbria, Italy, Saturday, September 29, 2012 Early to bed last night because it was early to rise this morning. We walked down the nearly empty streets of Montepulciano to make sure we catch the 0655 bus to Chiusi. Our train is at 0902 and the next bus doesn’t get there in time. On our […]

Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy, Friday, September 28, 2012 Having an open agenda, we slept in today. Well, one of us slept more in than the other. The other, waking up, did a short early morning stroll around town, and spent time as the only person in the Duomo. We did lounge around in our spacious Palazzo […]

Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy, Thursday, September 27, 2012 Today is one of the few times we do not have any solid information on transportation to our destination. We have decided to take the train to Chiusi and hopefully find a bus to Montepulciano. They are supposed to exist but information on schedules is scarce. Using the […]