Gus! He walked out of his room this morning for the first time in 2 days with a huge smile on his face and said “I feel great!” Yay for Gus and yay for us! And now, we go home. Andiamo e arrivederci. Continue reading Guess who’s back?!?!?
For our hardcore followers (all three of you) I’m coming back to my comfort zone and posting bullet point style about random observations and thoughts. Enjoy! • It’s hot here in Rome! We’ve actually had great weather most of the trip, pretty comfortable everywhere we’ve been. It was fairly hot and humid (~90) in Venice to start the trip but since then pretty comfortable everywhere. Until we got to Rome. It’s been between 95 and 100 every day we’re here. Thank God (or as my Nonna would have said with her accent “tens God”) for the nasones across Rome which … Continue reading Return of the Ramblings
Hola! Jose here, checking in again, this time about Barcelona. Sunday was another action packed day. We met our tour guide Irene at the port in the am and headed into the city. First we drove up Montjuic which is the highest point in the city and saw some Olympic related sites. Barcelona hosted the Olympics in 1992 (the year of the dream team) and Irene said they speak of Barcelona as before and after the Olympics – the Olympics really did great things for the city and gave them more global recognition. We then headed to Parc Guell, designed … Continue reading Barcelona
Ciao, this is Giuseppe (or as I’m known in America, Joe) jumping in for a post! On Monday (7/1) we rented 2 large vans and traversed the Northern Italian countryside, all 15 of us. Our destination: the two towns in the subject which were the hometowns of my Nonna (grandmother) and Nonno (grandfather) respectively . They’re just across the river from each other about an hour Northwest of Milan. Our first stop was the cemetery in Romagnano where my Nonno’s parents and sister are buried. It also happened to be the 20th anniversary of the day my Nonno died, so … Continue reading Gattinara & Romagnano
In case you didn’t see this comment at the bottom of the original post, here is the answer to my question on the coffee cup dashboard light: Thank you all for the guesses, we do have a winning guess! Of course the winner is Kelli Rahn who drives a Mercedes and whose husband works for Mercedes! It is to indicate that the alertness monitor is on and the car will let you know if you veer out of the lane. Tuh-duh! Continue reading Survey Says…
Well, our journey is over and I’m writing this final post from home. We’re happy to be home as it’s been a long trip, but also sad that our epic adventure is over. It’s back to the real world for all of us but before that, let’s ramble on like Led Zepelin! Our hotel location in Florence was absolutely perfect. We were no more than a 5-10 minute walk from all the major sites – the Duomo, the Uffizi, the Acedemia, the Ponte Veccchio, etc. Florence is an amazing city and we could have easily spent more time there as … Continue reading Ramblings – Quatro e finale
One thing I forgot to touch on in my ramblings was the picture of the coffee cup illuminated on the dashboard of our van. At first I wondered if the van had a coffee maker – we are in Italy after all. Then maybe I thought it was to remind the American tourists their coffee is better which is why I haven’t seen any Starbucks. Do you know what it’s for? I finally looked it up. Put your best guess below and don’t cheat and look it up online (Marcel). I’ll give you the real answer later. Continue reading Survey says…
Me again! Let’s get right into it shall we? It’s really hot here! Been 100 degrees the last several days and will be tomorrow as well which stinks because we’re going to the Vatican so we have to wear pants… Speaking of the heat, I’m constantly sweaty and sticky which isn’t my favorite feeling in the world. How do these people not shower more than they do? Casa Maria was awesome! It was hard to leave and it was just what we needed after two weeks of go, go, go One thing I know about whoever built Casa Maria is … Continue reading Ramblings -Part tre
Hi everyone, Joe here again, back by popular demand! Okay, maybe there was only one person really asking for another blog post from me and maybe that person was my mom…. oh well, here I go anyway… Thankfully almost everyone we spoke to in Germany spoke English. Made me wonder why we’re so bad in the US at teaching/learning a second language. As you know from the previous blog post, I got to drive the Autobahn in a BMW. But to correct Merritt, at one point I got it all the way up to 170…kph. That’s still about 105 mph, … Continue reading Ramblings, part zwei (that’s two in German for those of you who aren’t as fluent as I)
This update is several days late, but you’ll be happy to hear that we did successfully return those fans before we left Paris. Thanks to a French colleague of mine, I was armed with exactly what needed to be said in a text message. So we marched into the Carrefour and I showed the message to the woman at the door. She pointed us to customer service. I showed it to the woman at customer service who thankfully spoke a little English. She told us that we couldn’t return them there, but that we could return them in another area … Continue reading The fan saga
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