I want to talk about the other things we saw and did in Italy. We landed in Milan. We booked a nice older hotel in Milan for the first night. Even though it was November and we had driven through a snowstorm to get to the airport, it felt more like October. The leaves were yellow and starting to fall. The next morning, we went to Sforza Castle in Milan. It was very...
We spent a day in Rome. Three days would have been more reasonable. There is so much to see and do in Rome. I noticed how busy of a city it was. There was traffic all over and you really had to be careful where you were going. We chose to take a Hop-on hop-off bus to see the sites. Marty wasn’t driving, so she remarked about how beautiful the city was. Since we...
I think one of my favorite places we’ve visited on our travels is the Amalfi Coast. It ranks up there with Meteora in Greece. It had a great mixture of natural beauty and cool buildings. The Amalfi Coast is a coastline you can drive along where it is largely cliffs and steep mountains, but they built little towns and other buildings along there. The road itself...
I think it’s odd that we call it Italy, but there they call it Italia. Venice is actually Venezio. If that’s what they call them, why do we change the names of their country? We may never know. Anyway, we took a trip to Italy in November. Italy is very romantic and has a lot of ancient buildings. It’s got a lot to see and we only had time to see...