Italy – We’re Back!

Happy Fall/Autumn/Second Summer to you wherever you are. We were, at this moment 48 hours previous, frantically trying to complete a year’s worth of procrastination into about four hours of actual work to complete our preparations for 2021 — Italy, the long-awaited trip. You can only imagine! Now here we are, in Chiavari, Italy, between …

Done and done … for now …

Our plane to Munich is filling up with sleepy travelers; the attendant is making announcements, sounding a bit like a parody of every German spy movie ever made. “Mr. Sanchez.  You vill come to zee front, pleez!” It is a German crew, following our Spanish crew from yesterdays layover in Barcelona. Despite strike warnings of …

Sicily and its sweet center.

We are at our nearly last place of accommodation. Sicily. We took a spectacular ferry and drive. The island of Sicily is quite beautiful, as we were told. But, since we are doing some comparisons here – this place, this B&B is unlike anyplace we have stayed before. Acireale, near Catania, feels much like a …