(April 7, 2014) Sadly, I had a very bad night and hardly slept at all. Moreover, the taxi we thought we’d call to pick us up never showed, so we…

(April 6, 2014) Today we’d planned to spend the day taking the bus out to Villa d’Este and Hadrian’s Villa. Note the past tense? Yeah . . .  our alarm…

(April 5, 2014) This was the one day we *had* to wake up early, and we deliberately planned it for the first day of the trip, figuring that jet lag…

We’ve got pictures we want to upload, but the internet/wi-fi connections have been so slow we haven’t been able to. Hopefully when we get to Florence (today) we’ll have the…

Up too early, but no problems getting to the airport and onto the first leg of our trip. J. and I are packing one carryon and a messenger bag. We’ve…