Chris

Chris

Rome is the mob

Friday – The day of Venus.  Our morning kicked off with a jaunt across town on Roman public transport.  I’ll follow up with a post on how to get around Rome.  Our scheduled tour was of the Colosseum and the…

The five lands

I’m a little late at getting this up because we got back late, and I slept in.  Using the AirBnB experiences section of their application we booked a small boat tour of the Cinque Terre region of Italy.  Using Florence…

David vs the sandwich

Generally a city has two or three things that brings tourists through it’s gates.  Florence has many but today I found two and I’m ready to declare a winner. Walking tour Our morning was spent wandering through parts of Florence…

Cooking class in Florence

Coffee is the most important part of my day.  Without it I am a empty shell of a human.  Our apartment in Florence came with a moka pot.  I have never used one of these but the night before I…

Introduction to Florence

Venice was nice but the city had failed to grab our interest. Perhaps it was the short time we spent in Venice or the 82 steps to get to our apartment. Our last morning in Venice we ate breakfast and…

Venice: City of canals and bridges

First and foremost Venice is super touristy.  Our AirBnB even has an American coffee maker!!  I almost cried at the sight of it and I’m even getting emotional writing this.  I don’t think locals even live on the island of…

Among the hoodoos

We had an amazing night viewing the stars at Kodachrome state park.  Unfortunately, we don’t possess the camera equipment to take cool pictures of it. We departed Kodachrome and stopped for breakfast at a local diner before arriving back at…