Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

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 […]

Well, it’s probably about time to tell you about what we did a couple weeks ago, right? We’ve been off of our normal blogging pace for the last week or two so we’ll try to catch up in the next few days. After the week in Umbria, we spent a week in Tuscany near San […]

Here is the view from the window of our apartment in Riomaggiore (Cinque Terre): – Meredith

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked at a sign, a menu or something in a store window here and spent the brain cycles to decipher the Italian only to realize once I’m done that the English was already there right below. But that said, it’s been amusing reading the English because it […]

Here are some pictures of the Incident. I made them all black-and-white to give them that gritty, breaking-news, as-it-happened feel. Trust me, it’s like you’re at the scene. Above, I’m standing right where the Incident occurred: at the Riomaggiore police station, on the landing of the stairs that are to my right, leading to our […]

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 […]