2025 Italy/Scotland/Ireland/Iceland 2025

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