Italy Travels

We have arrived to this tiny peninsula by car. It was stressful as the road was overflowing with pedestrians. We managed only 1 scraped panel in a tight right hand…

Today, after hiking in Alpe di Siusi, we took the funicular up out of Ortisei to an altitude of roughly 2000m. As a reference, Ortisei is at 1236m. Once at the…

Today we took the cable car to Alpe di Siusi - Selser Alm. Arriving to Mont Seuc at 2005m. Here we decided on a fairly easy loop taking trails 6A…

Today we got 8.5 miles of hiking in (probably more with the walk to the Seceda lift & back). This is the entrance to the liftThis is a cable car then…

 It’s beautiful here, Here’s a photo dumpOur hotel is on the hill to the left of the cable carsThe hotel View from our room / patioA walk from the hotel to…

The Dolomiti are about a 3-4 hour drive from Milan. We will be here for 3 nights, staying at a half board hotel that provides a substantial breakfast buffet and…

The espresso here is amazing. I love these places where you order and drink espresso like it’s a bar. They had them all over Milan and during our drive to…

Today we toured the Duomo — inside and on rooftop. It was pretty awesome. Rainy day on & off, but managed 12 miles of walking, 1 pizza eating, and 1…

Photo dump! We started with espresso and croissant (coronetto or croissant — dunno). The thing is: it was very good requiring a second espresso. The price was so amazingly low…

Trying to stay up until 10p to switchover without jet lag….so we jumped on the metro and went 2 stops to the Duomo. Here’s what we saw