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Day 17 – June 5, 2025 – Foiano, Italy This morning after breakfast, we headed to Montepulciano. We arrived about 9:45 and easily found a parking spot outside the city walls. Our tour of De Ricci cellars was not until 12:30 so we had plenty of time to walk around and check things out. John […]

Day 16 – June 4, 2025 – Foiano, Italy Today we have nothing planned except to return some coffee pods that don’t fit the coffee machine and to grab a few more groceries. We had a leisurely breakfast then headed into town to run our errands. We were trying to find some fish and went

Day 14 – June 2, 2025 – Foiano della Chiana, Italy – DISCLAIMER – I used ChatGPT for a couple of the picture comments to help remind me of what we saw. After not sleeping well (me) and getting up early, we enjoyed our coffee sitting outside and enjoying the sunrise. We cooked breakfast and

Day 13 – June 1, 2025 – Siena to Foiana della Chiana, Italy – DISCLAIMER – I used ChatGPT for some of the picture comments to help remind me of what we saw. Today we leave for our villa and I’m excited about it! We finished up all the packing, ate good breakfast and headed

Day 12 – May 31, 2025 – Siena, Italy – DISCLAIMER – I used ChatGPT (love it!) to help with some of the picture comments as I could not remember everything we did/saw. With nothing really planned except to do the panorama tour, we headed out about 10:15 am so that we could be there

Day 11 – May 30, 2025 – Siena, Italy – DISCLAIMER – I used ChatGPT (love it!) to help with some of the picture comments as I could not remember everything we did/saw. We had a quick breakfast as our tour guide was meeting us right outside the gates of our BNB at 9 am.

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