Saturday was action packed with Vicenza and Padua.  We started our day with Patrizia, Enrico and Alice (the 6 year old daughter of Cinzia and Giuseppe).  Vincenza was way more laid back than Verona...

Mestrino is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto. It is the home of Patrizia and Cincenzia, the two daughters of Tosca and Nicola from San Pier Patti, Messina,...

Wowsa did we make a train comeback. We were calm. We actually looked at the status on the app. So, you can teach old people new tricks. Honestly Roma is a beast. Again, I...

Firenze here we come!!! We spent two days in Florence.  We arrived early thankfully bc we almost missed our train not bc of being late but bc of stupidity and panic. Long story not...

Saturday: Thank goodness we are now calm. Well I should say that I have calmed down lol. We completed our Holy Door mission walking through the final two Holy Doors of Roma. The Basilicas...

So I totally messed up with our schedule. I thought it was May 10 when I looked the night before. (The Vatican events had my plans and brain all mixed up). We walked to...

Part 1 Back to the Vatican. We began our day by, you guessed it, walking back to the Vatican. I really wanted to see the first  conclave of smoke on day two of the conclave...

The train to Rome went very smoothly thank goodness no power outages. We sat next to a very busy Italian woman who was working on her laptop. We sat across from each other so...

Bari is a port city on the Adriatic Sea, and the capital of southern Italy’s Puglia region. Its mazelike old town, Barivecchia, occupies a headland between 2 harbors. Surrounded by narrow streets, the 11th-century...