This morning we packed up our things, strolled around the town one last time, then boarded our train to Tuscany. The train once again passed the Carrera mountains with it’s impressive marble crags. We struck up a conversation with an Australian couple who were traveling through Europe, then planned to visit New York and San […]

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First, I’d like to thank everyone who has commented. We are reading all of them and it means a lot. Second, apparently my dislike of Facebook is mutual. I decided to try “advertising” the updates on Facebook and still hardly anyone has known about the blog. So please feel free to share this with as […]

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La Spezia, is known as the gateway to Cinque Terre which is the area we have been traveling to from Venice. We left La Spezia in the morning around 10:00 am, it was already hot when we arrived back to the rail depot to catch the local train which goes through Cinque Terre. The name […]

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Our last day in Venice yielded some valuable lessons on how things are done in Italy and how best to leave this unique city. First I researched the best exit route from the city; by water taxi, train, or bus, in order to rent a car. The train goes farther than wanted to rent a […]

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*Note I apologize for the poor quality of pictures in this post. I forgot to take many pictures with the phone, so these are pictures I took of the pictures on my camera’s screen.* Last night we had our first taste of Venice, it was one of those night which had that perfect temperature, it […]

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We awoke to the German countryside just pulling into the rail station at München (Münich) it, in a word was wonderglortastical (patent pending). The train station alone was a model of efficiency and modern design, I mean consider the WC (bathroom) it may cost a Euro, but it is cleaned after every use and you […]

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*Update to the update* Have you ever realized you’ve done something So stupid or made an oversight so large as to cause yourself to be mortified with you own ineptitude, only to later realize that you never did what you thought you had, but rather panicked over a complete misunderstanding of the situation? Well that […]

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Early, so early in the morning. We awoke to catch our ride on the Eurostar to Paris. At 4:00 am we packed up our things and hired a cab to take us over to St. Pancras station. The Eurostar is fast and after only two hours of nearly flying through British and French countryside, and […]

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Yes, London’s infamous rain has graced us with its presence (even in June). No matter even with the rain it was still a balmy 21° C (70° F). It was decided that we should do the touristy thing, much to my chagrin, and take a tour bus around the city. This ended up working well […]

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And…. We made it. Our flight was shorter than expected due to being in a 747 and having an ample tail wind all the way here, it took a little over 9 hours. Once we got through immigration, we took the Underground over to Queensway station, which required three train switches, and we made it […]

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