Where winding roads, rusty rails, iffy health and lean budget meet the calm
We’ve been travelling for over 2 weeks in Europe. By the end of our short journey, we’ll visit 6 countries. Usually our travel is slower, however the goal of this trip is to visit friends in Switzerland, Italy and Belgium. We have a return flight from Amsterdam. And along the way we stopped in Germany and France. We’ve enjoyed European train travel in the past. This time German trains were chaotic, so we have a few stories to tell when we have time to post.
Florence! The home of Renaissance art and architecture, and the capital of Tuscany. With famous gourmet cuisine, this medieval city on the banks of Arno River captivated our hearts with its charming narrow cobbled streets, fresco-decorated churches and basilicas, marble statues and vibrant night life. Continue reading “Florence & Pisa, Italy 2016”
After overcrowded Venice it was refreshing to spent a week in charming Padua. It was much cheaper there, and we could do day trips to other cities nearby. Continue reading “Padua, Verona & Ferrara, Italy 2016”
As with most of our trips at the time, this was a spontaneous decision. Air Canada Rouge had just opened a new destination to Venice and the price was really good. Continue reading “Venice, May 2016”
We’ll have another post on Venice and our activities there in the spring of 2016. We visited about a year before anti-tourist protests would begin, Continue reading “Venice as we saw it then”
Happy Birthday Anne!
We’ll start this storyline with our visit to Milan and Mutti in 2016. Continue reading “Anne, Milan & Mutti, Italy”
The speed with which everything is changing is frightening. We don’t even have time to analyse emotions or for the emotions to sink in. Continue reading “Lightspeed”
A Black Swan is a metaphor describing a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics. Continue reading “The Black Swan”
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