Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

Some of you may know that one of my less desirable traits is impatience.  I generally know what I want and I want it as soon as reasonably practicable. So, obviously, making the most out of our vacation while being unable to walk freely is an interesting challenge for me.  If I believed in fate, […]

So.  Klutsy Mendola has done it again.  Except this doesn’t seem to be as simple as the countless other times I’ve hurt my ankles.  This time, they put a hard cast on me.  Well, technically, it’s a half-cast.  But I can’t get it wet, can’t move my foot, can’t put any pressure on it at […]

We are now in Riomaggiore (one of the Cinque Terre) and have been since Saturday evening. We haven’t had much chance to blog, explore, or really, do much of anything though as we have had a hiccup. On Saturday, we arrived, checked into our apartment, then went up the hill to park our car. We were walking […]

Here is the view from our window in our villa/apartment in Tuscany: – Meredith

Our strategy for Tuscany and Umbria was to base ourselves in two separate villa apartments over two weeks (one east and sort of south and one west and sort of north). The way most of the villas and farmhouses work here is that you rent a place for a week starting and ending on a […]

Meredith has her series of posts about the views from our windows but I was moved on our first day in Umbria to show you what really counts. Here’s the view from our first villa’s crapper:   – Dave

The first day in our villa in Umbria, all we did was chill out and do laundry.  It was so nice not to be racing around, and we really needed to wash our clothes. Macchina Lavanderia – Meredith

Here is the view from our window in our villa/apartment in Umbria: – Meredith

We haven’t had a scale in any of the rooms or apartments we’ve stayed in (thank goodness!), but there are mirrors.  I’m clearly gaining weight.  At least we’re walking a lot, or it wouldn’t be pretty.  I would be remiss in sharing my Italian experiences if I left out how great and how copious the […]

We’ve finally had the right combination of time and Internet access to prepare and upload a few galleries. You can click here for a few pictures from Rome, here for a few in the Sorrento area (Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Positano), and here for Florence. As usual, the Photo Galleries page has also been updated with […]