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Rome on a Saturday part 2
Yay! Tom got his Caravaggios!! We visited two more churches first then was a ways out from our Borghese gallery tour. We didn’t think we had time to walk back…
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Rome on a Saturday part 1
Galleria Doria Pamphilj We start the day with a visit to Galleria Doria Pamphilj which has a collection of the family’s art gallery. It is stunning!Close! Buy this is a Caravaggio…
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Rome on a Friday
Carvaggi-noBeen in Rome for a day and a half now. We are 0 for 3 getting a look at Caravaggios. First try was at the Basilica Parrocchiale di Santa Maria…
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Florence Day 2 – Art Ed
Today our schedule looked like this Let’s get the food pics out of the way. Pasta and gelato. This gelato us my favorite and it looks like it is well known…
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Florence Day 1
Today we traveled to Florence. Returning the scraped car at the Florence Airport, the attendant shrugged and suggested we buy him a coffee when he visits San Diego. A quick-ish…
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Sirmione water day
Riding on the water We took the ferry to Desenzano because I wanted to shop at Vestopazzo! We ate lunch there then took the ferry back. The ferry pathIt was a pretty…
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Sirmione – Grotto di Catullo and a Boat Ride
After recovering from our arrival, we went to look at Grotto Catullo, ruins of a Roman Villa. Here, we are hoping to have become Instagram famous. Check out our poses.Then…
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Sirmione – Arrival
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…
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Dolomiti: Funicorlare Resciesa
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…
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Dolomiti: Alpe di Siusi – Selser Alm
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…