Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

I’ll keep it short. It turns out that one of the most famous/best orthopedic institutes in the world is in Bologna (Rizzoli Institute).  We learned that the best thing to do would be to go to the emergency room there, take a number, and wait for a doctor to see me – we were told […]

I nearly minored in Art History in college (I found out too late that I needed 10 classes for a minor; I had taken 9.  Oops).  Anyway, my favorite classes were medieval and Byzantine art and architecture. There’s a town in Emilia-Romagna near the Adriatic named Ravenna that was the seat of the Western Roman […]

After Lago di Como, we went to the Veneto to stay with two sisters we met while traveling in the Caribbean last year.  We kept in touch with them via email, and when we told them we were coming to Italy, they generously offered to have us stay with them. Silvia and Valeria live in […]

Here is the view from the window of our hotel room in Varenna on Lake Como: The canopy is a ferry landing. Our hotel was right across the street. This was perfect given my “condition.” – Meredith

We spent two days in Lake Como.  We weren’t sure when we were planning the trip whether we wanted to go, and after the ankle incident in Cinque Terre, we almost didn’t make this stop. I’m SO glad we did.  Lake Como is more picturesque and beautiful than any picture I’ve seen, the towns along […]

If you are one of our faithful readers, you already know that after leaving Tuscany we went to the Cinque Terre. The Cinque Terre are a group of 5 towns (hence Cinque Terre, the Five Earths) along the northwestern coast of Italy. We stayed in the southernmost one: Riomaggiore, named for the river that used […]