Food Tour
I had only budgeted for one serious food tour for this trip, so I chose “Taste of Prague”, a small local company with top notch reviews. The tour didn’t start until noon, so we just lazed around all morning. While … Continue reading →
Can’t speak a Word of Czech!
My usual travel fatigue has yet to set in although maybe I’ve just bounced off the bottom from the Badalucco part. Anyway we are full of enthusiasm for Prague. I think the nice weather has helped. We returned to the … Continue reading →
Getting to Know You, Prague
I scheduled our first “Free walking Tour” of Prague for 11:15 so we wouldn’t have to rush too much in our lazy morning way. By the way, they no longer call it a free walking tour rather they say “pay … Continue reading →
A Whole New World
So….a travel day. We had gotten a notice from easyJet that there were “unprecedented delays” on the road from Casorote Sempione, where our hotel was, to Terminal 2 at Malpensa. So we opted for an early shuttle to the airport. … Continue reading →
Return to Stresa
In Arona, we packed up and rolled our suitcases through a great looking market to get to the station, where we had parked the rental Fiat. In 1998, Stresa was the very first place we ever slept, as a family, … Continue reading →
Arona
It took us a long time to get out of the apartment because neither the heat nor the hot water were working, and I had a long messaging session, including sending videos of the thermostat and the boiler, with the … Continue reading →
New Direction
Morning came with delicious fresh pastries at our door and the little bit of packing we needed to do. I had planned to do our laundry in Badalucco, but the clothes had to be dried on an outside line and … Continue reading →
The Roi Family
We woke up determined to make the best of our stay here, and to cut it short by two nights. I had a text from Marta in reception that we could go on the olive mill tour at 10:00, so … Continue reading →
Traveling
Of course, it was raining hard in Piacenza in the morning. We got packed up and got to the car and left. The drive to Western Liguria was mostly in the rain, which made it hard for our intrepid driver, … Continue reading →
Piacenza
Dreary is how I would describe the morning weather. We just wanted to go walking and explore. First we turned onto Corso Cavour to see the huge museum (archeological artifacts), but neither of us wanted to go inside. We turned … Continue reading →