Category Archives: Italia 2014

Official wrap up #2

Keep Your Feet in the Street Posted on August 2, 2014 by

I have some photos that just never fit into any daily post so I thought I would put them up. These are just on my desk top, still and I’m ready to move on. First, the door to our Florence … Continue reading →

The Official Wrap Up #1

Keep Your Feet in the Street Posted on July 10, 2014 by

Well, we’ve been home a few days now and I’m ready to think about the trip as a whole. Coming home went very smoothly. We were ready early to check out of the Marriott and made our 10 minute walk … Continue reading →

Discovering Zurich

Keep Your Feet in the Street Posted on July 6, 2014 by

We woke to light rain. Hung out in the lobby for a while, had some coffee and talked to concierge Markus about our day. We headed across the bridge (we are starting to feel more at home in this off-the-beaten-path … Continue reading →

The Last Leg

Keep Your Feet in the Street Posted on July 5, 2014 by

All packed up, we made the easy walk to the train station and got our tickets for Zurich HB. We bought a couple of rolls to eat on the train. People were very helpful to us except for one guy … Continue reading →

Lovely Lucerne and the Lion

Keep Your Feet in the Street Posted on July 4, 2014 by

We awoke to a beauty of a day–clear, sunny skies and a real cool breeze. After our make-shift breakfast in the room we walked to the Lion Monument. Carved into the side of a cliff, just a few blocks outside … Continue reading →

Rainy Day–Lucerne

Keep Your Feet in the Street Posted on July 3, 2014 by

We woke up to rain. No big deal. We had our in-room coffee and some fruit and yogurt we’d bought and decided to go over to the art gallery in the KKL, a big modern conference center next to the … Continue reading →

Lucerne

Keep Your Feet in the Street Posted on July 2, 2014 by

We made coffee in the room in a single cup Nespresso machine with little pods. It was surprisingly decent. Restaurant prices here are outrageous. A buffet breakfast in this hotel costs 30 CHF which is about $35–each! The day looked … Continue reading →

Travel day

Keep Your Feet in the Street Posted on July 1, 2014 by

I feel like the song “Here There and Everywhere” with all of the travel. We started with the new snow on the mountains, leaving Bormio (with a care package waiting for us near the desk) at around 6:30. We drove … Continue reading →

Socked in

Keep Your Feet in the Street Posted on June 29, 2014 by

I rained ALL DAY. Here’s was our view from the balcony: IN the afternoon, around 4:00 we thought it had stopped and got ready to go out but before we had our shoes on it started again. We went anyway–walked … Continue reading →

Bormio: “The weather is unpredictable”

Keep Your Feet in the Street Posted on June 29, 2014 by

After breakfast we went to the desk for a suggestion for a walk. Federica gave us some options but the predictions were for rain starting in the late morning. Because I didn’t want to go far and be caught on … Continue reading →