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In planning this trip, we intentionally left a few free afternoons / days in order to accommodate spontaneity.  In many cases we have spontaneously returned to our lovely terraced Airbnb’s for naps, snacks, and chilling.  Yesterday, however, we decided to…

Today Devin and Linda went to Orvieto and I took the high speed rail line north to Bologna.  These trips were not planned in advanced as we had left a free day in the schedule to either explore more of…

The Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the great works of Michelangelo and a true sight to behold.  If only it wasn’t at the Vatican. Tour time We did another tour with the Roman Guy so that we could get…

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…