Oh, the places I will go …

I am a writer who loves to travel. As a professional journalist for 40 years, I went to a lot of bad places but not a lot of nice ones. Now that I have the time and the means to see the parts of the Earth I have not seen, I am going to go as far afield as I can, as often as I can.

I have been single since my husband died in 2014. And I am not young - I qualify for a lot of senior’s discounts. But that just means now is the time I must do this.

Sometimes I will travel alone, and sometimes I will travel with friends. And I write this blog not to offer advice or tips, but merely as a record of my journeys - one that I can enjoy in later years when my travelling is curtailed by age. Hopefully others will enjoy coming along for the ride.

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May 22, 20223 min read

We roam Venice on foot and by waterbus, ending with a little Vivaldi

The morning started with coffee and croissants in a cafe in the piazza down the street from our AirBNB. Then we headed to the Piazza San...

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May 21, 20223 min read

Fabulous glass, a lesson in lace, we buy dresses (of course we do), and then we have $25 aperitifs

We scrambled across canal bridges and navigated our way down narrow Venetian streets to make the 10 am start of our tour to two of...

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May 20, 20223 min read

After wine and castles, we land in Venice .. and we are very happy

Cyn and I kept to our pledge to purchase some local wines - Soave, Amarone, Valpolicello - before we left Verona by searching out the...

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May 20, 20223 min read

We spend some time in the Italian city of love …

I started this trip saying my goal was to find a tall, dark, uber-rich Italian man who would sweep me off my feet. You might think that,...

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May 19, 20222 min read

I climb a mountain, Cyn climbs two

This is the day that Cyn had looked forward to most since we started planning this trip to Italy last summer. The five villages of Cinque...

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May 18, 20222 min read

We arrive in Cinque Terra … Cinque Whera? One of the most beautiful places on Earth

Cyn and I packed our bags and shlepped ourselves down the four flights of stairs then walked to the Pussy Piazza for the last time. We...

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May 17, 20222 min read

Florence Day 3 - Food (of course) and flowers

We started day three in Florence with a walking tour of local markets. We are doing a fair number of food tours on this trip - which...

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May 16, 20223 min read

Florence Day Two … Up close with the Renaissance

Cyn and I parted ways early on the second day of our excellent Italian adventure. She went to a four-hour class to learn how to make...

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May 15, 20223 min read

So here we are … in Florence

This trip has been eight months in the planning: We are here because Cyn’s brother, Robert, and his partner rented a villa in Tuscany and...

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