Italy Travel Blogs - Page 2

David and I tried to leave Rome to catch the train up to Spenzia beginning around 9:30 am.  Unfortunately, there was a bus strike in Rome.  We stood at the bus stop for hours and couldn't understand why the bus number we needed hadn't come.  We laughed later and said probably everyon…

Now the real challenge was beginning because we left Germany’s well-known streets (at last)!   Dad was looking forward to cross some cool passes in Switzerland while I was his co-pilot with the map on my lap and Mum and Kim were still enjoying the great mountains. That doesn’t mean th…

My Roman Holiday was simply amazing. I wish we had more time there. It is such an amazing city. I smoked my first cigarette, had my first Big Mac, visited the Vatican, sat on the Spanish Steps, threw a coin into the Trevi Fountain, and even walked down the great hall in the last scene of "Roman Hol…

Two J Club members meet in Italy!   J4 and J5 maybe????????? The idea for this trip was conceived a few months ago while chatting with Jennifer(Jenn79) about our travels.  She had suggested meeting up somewhere but the timing just was not right yet.  Jennifer had told me that s…

It was, more or less, the last day of our trip.  It felt so funny to have it be ending, and stranger still was the sense that we'd been gone a really long time already. The following morning our plane would be taking off from the Venice Airport; so our goal for the day was to get back to Veni…

I got a message recently from Adrian (hancock826) asking me about a picture she had taken in Italy.  She had a great panoramic shot of the Colosseum and wanted my advice on how to get rid of a couple of white vans that rather detracted from the photo.  She is quite familiar with photoshop…

Orbetello was an ancient Etruscan settlement, which in 280 BC passed under the control of the Romans, who had founded their colony of Cosa (near the modern Ansedonia).   In the Middle Ages it was a possession of the Aldobrandeschi family, who held it until the 14th century, when it was acqui…

The days whizzed by much too fast and on the 19th October we flew back to Berlin in the morning. But I’ve taken the deep wish to come back to this wonderful and completely stunning city sometime again!!

September 12- (overnight flight) First our flights that almost did not happen. My friend was coming from Nebraska to meet me in Chicago we then would travel together to London for our connection flight then on to Milan. Well her flight was delayed 2 hours, than 4 hours, than went back to 2 hours. …

Docked in Civitavecchia, third stop of Mediterranean cruise. Also spent 3 days in Rome on driving tour. Highlights: 1. Colosseum & Forum 2. Vatican City (Sistine Chapel & La Pieta) 3. Borghese Gallery 4. Trevi Fountain 5. Spanish Steps 6. Via Veneto

I woke up to (trains) screeching and (cars) honking.  Ah, yes, I'm in Italy.  That bed was the most comfortable youth hostel bed I've ever slept in, and much better than most beds I've slept in!  I slept well, though I'm not sure why I woke up so early.  I showered and woke up M…

I woke up quite early on the second day as there was still quite a bit of Rome I wanted to see.  I knew we were going to the Colosseum again today and hopefully do some kind of tour, so I wanted to see some of the gardens.  I walked up the Villa Borghese as I'd read quite a bit about this…

I am writing from the steps of a beautiful church in the city of Lecce. It has a creamy limestone exterior, a painted wooden celieng, and both stone and paper machie statues decorating the inside. It's quite spectacular and sitting in the shade of the big doors, it's a comfortable place to write. J…

After landing in Vienna and spending a great week together my parents and I headed to Italy via a quick stop in Bratislava.   In Rome we managed to see all the major sites including: Colosseum, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, Roman Forum, Palatine, Vatican City. We saw t…

  Positano - 'Dream Place that isn't Quite Real'   John Steinbeck (excerpts from Harper’s Bazaar, May 1953)   Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn't quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone. Its houses climb a hill so stee…