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 …

Chianalea — cats, pirates and fishing.

We leave Scilla in the morning, probably before you will read this. Brother Bill is safely back to his routine in Cleveland, Robert and Elizabeth are probably in Venice, and the remaining four of us soldier onward south. This small fishing village connects through to the larger Scilla (pronounced Sheila). Lew just took this photo, …