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Day 10 – May 29, 2025 – Venice to Siena, Italy We were up fairly early, so we had light breakfast and finished the rest of the packing and we were on our way to the train station. We grabbed a sandwich for both of us and boarded the train. The train from Venice to […]

Day 9 – May 28, 2025 – Venice, Italy So apparently, I must have been exhausted as I woke up around 6:30 when the workers showed up, went to the bathroom, and laid back down. I dozed back off and managed to sleep through them sawing through concrete or something for at least another hour.

Day 8 – May 27, 2025 – Venice/Conegliano, Italy We had an early start with a quick breakfast before heading out the door for the train to Conegliano, which is about an hour ride up into prosecco land. You could start seeing vines as we got closer. We met up with our guide, Carlo, and

Day 7 – May 26, 2025 – Venice, Italy After getting to bed so late, I was surprised I was wide awake at 6:30 am so got up and checked email, played my Wordle/Quordle/Octordle (lol!) and then started going through pictures on the blog. I think the workers woke me up and apparently John was

Day 6 – May 25, 2025 – Rome, Italy to Venice, Italy We were up early this morning as we were catching the fast train to Venice. Had some fruit for breakfast, packed up the rest of the stuff and was out the door by 8:30 to meet up with our driver to take us

Day 5 – May 24, 2025 – Rome, Italy The only thing planned today is our Twilight Food Tasting Tour that starts at 4:40pm so we were in no hurry this morning. I worked on the blog and John did a little bit of work. We started packing up some stuff since our tour gets

Day 4 – May 23, 2025 – Rome, Italy This morning was a leisurely morning as we did not need to leave until about 11:15 for our Vatican tour. I had mentioned to John that I felt I had not had enough to eat yesterday morning before I quickly had that panini early on, so

After a decent night’s sleep (was soooo good to just lie flat!) and getting up after 8 am, we took our time this morning and were in no hurry. There is a Bialetti coffee maker that uses pods like a Keurig that was not cooperating, so John considered it a challenge to somehow make us

Considering the excitement of the day, we both slept really well. We had gotten most of our packing done the night before and with a 2:30 pm pickup time, we knew we had plenty of time to finish the last-minute stuff. We headed out for our normal morning walk, had breakfast and I had a