Author Archives: greonda

We have enjoyed a 2 day / one night  stay in the beautiful city of Vicenza (UNESCO listed) and known for it’s elegant buildings designed by the 16th Century architect , Andrea Palladio. We caught the train, dumped our bags … Continue reading →

  We have settled in nicely to the Italian lifestyle in Refrontolo doing our usual things of rest days , lunches and touring! Even though we still say that the Italians are “absolutely crazy drivers” , at least now we … Continue reading →

  After “suffering through” our Business Class flights, and having a spectacular view of the Swiss Alps from the plane, we arrived in sunny Italy!   We picked up our car, another Citroen , which we have named “Luigi” as … Continue reading →

After almost 3 months of cavorting around Europe, we are heading home tomorrow and looking forward to the 30 plus hours of flying……NOT!  Bring on Business Class! We negotiated the train to Lisbon even though there had been a taxi … Continue reading →

We left Sajazarra and had a one night stop  on the road to Santiago de Compostela. We stopped at Astorga another town on the Camino trail, and another medieval walled town!   The gothic cathedral was quite impressive as was … Continue reading →

This is our last day in La Rioja before moving onto our last few days in Spain.   We have still found plenty to do in our last week. We have checked out the small village of Cellorigo at the … Continue reading →

The next few blogs are made possible because of Marcos  from the Vodafone store in Gijon. We knew that we did not have internet in our village , so because of Marcos’ good English we are now on line! Marcos … Continue reading →

As you have guessed , we are now in Spain and we survived our “road trip” across France! Our first night on our road trip was spent at a village called Albenga which is about 80 kms from the French … Continue reading →

We are now in our last day here in our little haven of Chiusi. We have still found places to visit and restaurants to eat at! We visited Bevanga , a medieval town surrounded by well preserved ancient walls and … Continue reading →

We have been doing more touring, more relaxing, and of course, it goes without saying more eating and drinking! We are taking turns to planning a days itinerary….some successful, some not! Rhonda’s turn had us visiting several smaller villages, some … Continue reading →