I will freely admit that all my previous blogs about our 2021 trip to Italy sound idyllic. And why not,…
I posted 11 blog entries in the process of detailing each stop in our 17 day tour of northern Italy…
By way of the broadest overview, Italy has two major food zones, north and south. Southern cuisine is driven by…
Lake Como, vacation home to the rich and famous, lies only an hour from Milan. On one of our last…
We have spent two days or more in almost a dozen European cities. All were interesting, but of these I…
Milan has one “must see” location: the Duomo Milano, the largest Gothic-era cathedral in the world. There are two larger…
The other towns of Val Gardena offer similar but different views. Armed with a 3-day “all you can ride” gondola…
Seven days into our trip, my photographer’s soul filled to overflowing. On that day we reached our furthest destination: a…
Verona, the setting from Romeo and Juliet, is about a half hour train ride from Lake Garda. This is a…
Apart from the castle and the lake, there were no “sights” to see at Lake Garda. So we were free,…