Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

I’ve just posted three more galleries of photographs from our trip to Italy. It feels good to finally be caught up since we left Venice one week ago. So without further ado, the gallery from the Cinque Terre is here, the gallery from Lake Como, Ravenna, and Bologna is here, and the gallery from Venice […]

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 […]

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 […]