April 14, Just a week away from arriving in Italy. Hotels are all booked, car rental set up - well a short term lease to be more accurate. Seems - at least with the company we booked thru - that if you're renting a car for longer that 17 days, a lease is a better deal that straight rental....haven't quite figured out why, but ...hey...saving $500 seemed to make sense. We will of course have the trusty GPS to guide us. Thank goodness we decided to use it on the trip around France in 2007. We'd never have found some of the places we went - specially hotels in some towns and cities- without it.
The other part of 'we' I refer to is my friend Natalie, who lives in New York City. We've been friends for over 25 years, and she's the friend who invited me to join her on the France trip. She has a love of medieval architecture, and there are so many towns in Europe still in existence from that period, which, for those of us with 'rusty history' were the years from approximately the 5th to the 16th century AD. We'll be seeing and staying in a number of those old towns.
Our travels this time will take us thru several regions of Italy - starting in Spoleto in Lazio, Gubbio in Umbria, several 'hill' towns - including Moltepulicano, Voterra Follinca, and passing thru Siena, Pisa all in Tuscany, Moneglia, Portofino on the Italian Riviera in Liguria before we head into France. There, some of the towns we will be visiting include Eze, Nice on the Riviera, St Paul de Vence in the Alpes Maritime, before heading north to Annecy, Besancon, Strasbourg then west to Epernay. We return on May 12. So......Monday nite April 20...up, up and away!!!
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