Category: travel
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Tuscany!
Tuesday, September 6, 2022 From Sandy Brown’s, “Trekking The Way of St Francis”, “Standing at the edge of the Late Middle Ages, a time of the dominion of religion and the Church, Michelangelo and his fellow artists looked within Biblical stories for the classic and timeless beauty in their subjects. Their work gave rebirth to…
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Moving Day
Monday, September 5, 2022 Today is bittersweet. I am closer to starting my walk, for which I am very excited, but it’s the day of check out at this lovely boutique hotel that Bill previously stayed in and booked for me and which I have become very fond of – Residenza II Villano. It’s a beautiful and…
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Fiesole Today!
Sunday, September o4, 2022 So, I hopped the #7 bus (knew to do this from my travel buddy, Rick Steves, of course!) at Piazza San Marco. There was an easy peasy ticket machine right there, too! The square was a bustle of traffic – pedestrian and motorized. I share this article from visitflorence.com, “Piazza San…
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Always Something More To See!
Saturday, September 3, 2022 My plan this Saturday: go back to some of the Hot Spots I have already visited and observe with a keener eye. Also being armed with more information after researching a bit more in the Rick Steves, “Florence and Tuscany” guidebook that I picked up off the bookshelf where I’m staying.…
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On A Clear Day, You Can See Forever!
Friday, September 2, 2022 And even on a cloudy day the vistas here in Florence are quite breathtaking if you’re okay with climbing some hills! Yet as noted by someone in a review on Trip Advisor, “Walking in Florence is walking in an open air museum. Behind every corner there is a nice view, another…
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It’s A New And Wonderful Day!
Thursday, September 1, 2022 I’m looking at the clock-it’s 7:00 pm right now… Do I go out? It’s only 10:0 0 am back home and I’m still adjusting…? I slept in today until 11 and felt pretty rested, but now I am tired. I made my way out to “wander“ after I unpacked and settled…
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Getting There
August 31, 2022 San Francisco airport to Copenhagen was the longest leg of my August 30/31 journey at 10.5 hours. I was very happy that there was room for my backpack in the bin above me by the time I boarded. I watched nine of ten episodes of Rizzoli and Isles because based on sage…
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Pilgrimage
August 30, 2021 I’m at it again! The Scandinavian Airlines waiting area seat at the San Francisco Airport hardly contains my equally pulsing anxiousness and excitement! I am bound for Copenhagen, then Amsterdam, on to Frankfurt and by 6:30 tomorrow night, Florence in Italy. The more than twenty-four hours between now and then is a…
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It’s a Wrap!
August 17, 18 and 19, 2021 Well, I guess I ended up leaving y’all hanging by not blogging, with my last entry being when I feasted around Santiago de Compostela upon completion of my most recent pilgrimage along the Camino Norte… I was spent in every way and it was all I could do to…
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Eating Away The Day (Again)
Monday, August 16, 2021 Another Rise and Shine at 7 am, and another persona dormida (sleeping) on the living room couch…. This time it was my roommate, our Energy Bunny who officially sprained her ankle the other day. She went to the hospital yesterday for x-rays and thankfully nothing was broken or torn. She had…