Year: 2023

Saturday May 13, 2023 One thing I forgot to mention is the place we are staying provides breakfast at a local bar cafe. Our train today is fairly early so we arrive at Bar Caravaggio when they open at 0730. We get to pick two pastries or croissants and a cup of cappuccino or coffee. […]

Friday May 12 Yesterday when we were on our way to the apartment, we stopped by the Palazzo D’Arco and booked a tour for this morning. The tours are only with a guide and unfortunately was completely in Italian. We could pick out some things that were said but not all as the guide spoke […]

Thursday May 11, 2023 We get to have a pastry breakfast and coffee before heading to the station this morning. We are heading to Mantova, a city of about 50,000 people. It has quite a few historical buildings and monuments all thanks to the ruling Gonzaga family. They turned the city into a musical and […]

Wednesday May 10, 2023 We sleep in a bit today and then Carol makes a nice breakfast of an egg sandwich and coffee. The umbrella street was an omen as it is raining this morning. It does not stop us as there are a few indoor things to see before our lunch reservation. We head […]

Tuesday May 9, 2023 We are on our own again today as Dave and Gwen decide to take a later train to Modena. This is in part as to when their apartment will be ready and also because we are doing a tour this afternoon that they did not want to do. So we have […]

Monday May 8, 2023 Today is one of those rare days that we get to sleep in a little. Mostly, the getting up early is our own doing as we like to see things early in the day when the crowds or tours or school kids are not active. We also like to travel a […]

Sunday May 7, 2023 We manage to squeeze in breakfast in our room before making the 1.5 mile walk to the train station. Dave and Gwen are taking a cab from their place to save the walk but we want the exercise so we can have a gelato guilt free. We arrive in Parma at […]

Saturday May 6, 2023 An easy morning today as our itinerary is not that full. Gwen is not feeling well so it looks like we are on our own again. Maybe they are just getting tired of us. We do not get out until about 1030 which for us is a late start. We check […]

Friday May 5, 2023 Today we are going to walk uphill to the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca.   We were going to go with Dave and Gwen but Gwen texted Carol this morning saying Daves foot is bothering him and they are just sitting down for coffee and breakfast so we should go without […]

Thursday May 4, 2023 We start our day with another cooked breakfast a la Carol. Very nice. Then we are out the door for about a 1.2 mile walk to the Risorgimento Museum. It is a nice stroll through a different and less central part of town. Much quieter than the middle of town. We […]