2023 Italy

Day 38 June 29, 2023 (Sorrento/Rome) FINAL POST Today we packed up and our driver picked us up at 10 a.m. to drive us to the train station in Naples. It still amazes us the amount of traffic and how the Italians drive so crazily, but it seems to work. We have labeled it as […]

Day 37 June 28, 2023 Today we had an excursion to the island of Capri. We were transported by van down to the marina and then boarded our boat for the 30-minute ride. The water here is beautiful and so clear! After arriving, we were given 5 hours to walk around and check things out

Day 36 June 27, 2023 (Sorrento) Today we had a two-hour tour of Pompeii scheduled. We had a driver, Tony, pick us up from our BNB and drove us to the ticket office to meet our guide for the tour with about 10 others. The tour was interesting, but it was VERY crowded, VERY hot,

Day 35 June 26, 2023 (Sorrento) John booked a Lemons, Mozzarella & Pizza tour today and it was fantastic!!!!!! We had a meeting place where they had their own bus pick us up and took us to their organic farm where it is literally farm to table. The drive there was worth the price of

Day 34 June 25, 2023 (Sorrento) We took the ferry to Ischia this morning and it was a pretty uneventful ride (about 50 minutes) except for the two girls (American) that sat behind us and talked nonstop, and every other word was “like”. Y’all these are college girls and I understand they are young, but

Day 33 June 24, 2023 (Sorrento) We both slept good last night so we got up, had breakfast and headed out the door about 10 a.m. There was not really a plan except to check out the local art museum (Museo Correale), so off we went. On the way, we stopped at the Church of

Day 32 June 23, 2023 (Sorrento) After a decent night’s sleep, John made coffee and we headed out to find the grocery store as we had no breakfast/dinner supplies. We finally found the favorite store, Conan, and got what we needed for the next couple of days. We headed back to the room where John

Day 31 June 22, 2023 (Montepulciano/Sorrento) As I mentioned yesterday about the heat and no A/C, last night was not too pleasant. Hard to sleep when you’re hot, but I managed to sleep halfway decent and feel good this morning. John didn’t sleep well, but he seems to manage better than I do. Got things

Day 30 June 21, 2023 (Montepulciano) Happy first day of summer!!!!! Today was an easy day after I imbibed a little too much with the wine last night. I woke up at 3 a.m. and never went back to sleep. We took it easy this morning and it gave me time to work on the

Day 29 June 20, 2023 (Montepulciano) Today was an easy day, we walked all over, went into different little shops, and then had a glass of wine in one of the little wine shops before we had lunch. Here, the restaurants don’t start serving lunch until at least noon, so we had to fill the

Day 28 June 19, 2023 (Montepulciano) Took the train this morning from Florence to the town of Chiusi to pick up our rental car. Thank goodness Italians drive on the right (correct, lol!) side of the road. Since I am the world’s worst navigator, I drove while John directed. Trust me, it works better this

Day 27 June 18, 2023 (Florence) After a great night’s sleep for me, we headed out about 9:15 a.m. and headed to the Galileo Museum. We spent over two hours in there and while this was more John’s thing than mine, I did find a lot of it interesting! Afterwards, we found a little place

Day 26 June 17, 2023 (Florence) This morning we left about 8:15 and we strolled to the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore where we had a tour at 9 a.m. Our tour guide, Alessandra, was amazing. She is a native of Florence and gave us a great tour of the Duomo (cathedral) then we

Day 25 June 16, 2023 (Florence) After a 20-minute walk to the train station, we boarded and after about 1 ½ hours we made it to Florence. Our walk from the Florence train station to our BNB was about 20-25 minutes and there were people EVERYWHERE! Our place is about 2 blocks from the Ponte

Day 24 June 15, 2023 (Lucca) Today was a perfect day for walking around Lucca! After dealing with rain the past two days, it was a nice change, though as I said before, we can’t complain as we have had great weather throughout the trip so far. We headed out about 10:30 and walked all