Rickmav – Italy Trip Report: Three Weeks in Venice, Florence, Tuscany & Umbria
Sep 26th, 2009, 02:49 PM
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Mavis: Thank you so much for sharing.
I just stumbled across your Fantastic review of Italy.
My husband and I,of 37 years,have had the undeserving privilege to visit
Italy 4 times in the last 9 years.
Italy just keeps calling us back.
On our first trip we thought we would never be able to come back.
Obviously we made sure that wasn't true.
Our first trip was 10 days-visiting Venice/Florence/Rome.
We fell in LOVE and hard.
Our 2nd trip was One week in Paris and One week in Venice.
Our 3rd trip was with another couple-One week in Paris and
10 days in Tuscany/Cinque Terre'.
Our 4th trip was one week in Rome and then on to Tuscany,Capri,Sorrento.
We too followed allot of Rick Steve's advice.
We had a 5th trip planned based around an Andrea Bocelli's concert in Lajatico,outside PISA for July 18,2009.
Sad to say the economy has hit us hard and we had to cancel our trip, while our 8 other friends went on to enjoy that trip.That was hard......
Through your written words, I could transport myself to all of those sights,scenes & smells that you experienced.It's been incredible reliving it.
We started planning a trip for 2010, but have come to realize that
the money is not going to be there.So 2011 will be the new plan.
So many people(who have never been to Italy)
ask us why we don't go somewhere else....what can I say...they don't understand.
Thank you for sharing the name's of where you stayed and ate,
so many bloggers don't do that.
Thank you for sharing how you remembered the things you wanted to write down by sharing it in a letter with your mom.And where you ate.
Excellent advice about reviewing your pictures each day.
I will do that next trip.
Your car experience.....reminds me, that when arriving in Florence we were taken to our room by Taxi from the Train Station, it was terrifying. Right then and there we all decided that we were not driving in Florence.We immediately cancelled our car we had reserved.Deciding that we would take day trip tour's.Which we did.
One to San Gimignano,knowing we would have to return there one day,and we have.We have driven in Tuscany since then and love it.
But it can be quiet haring to rent and or return a car.
On one of our trips we returned a car in Pisa.
My husband dropped me and our 2 friends and "ALL" our luggage off at the Train Station, while he returned the car. The garage dictator's barely acknowledged that he was there.So he jumped out of the car, left the engine running, only hoped it all worked out, threw his hands in the air and said " Only in Italy" then made a mad dash to catch the train with us,off to the Cinque Terre'.
But thats what going to Italy is all about, taking one day at a time, laughing at yourself and enjoying the experience no matter what.
I just stumbled across your Fantastic review of Italy.
My husband and I,of 37 years,have had the undeserving privilege to visit
Italy 4 times in the last 9 years.
Italy just keeps calling us back.
On our first trip we thought we would never be able to come back.
Obviously we made sure that wasn't true.
Our first trip was 10 days-visiting Venice/Florence/Rome.
We fell in LOVE and hard.
Our 2nd trip was One week in Paris and One week in Venice.
Our 3rd trip was with another couple-One week in Paris and
10 days in Tuscany/Cinque Terre'.
Our 4th trip was one week in Rome and then on to Tuscany,Capri,Sorrento.
We too followed allot of Rick Steve's advice.
We had a 5th trip planned based around an Andrea Bocelli's concert in Lajatico,outside PISA for July 18,2009.
Sad to say the economy has hit us hard and we had to cancel our trip, while our 8 other friends went on to enjoy that trip.That was hard......
Through your written words, I could transport myself to all of those sights,scenes & smells that you experienced.It's been incredible reliving it.
We started planning a trip for 2010, but have come to realize that
the money is not going to be there.So 2011 will be the new plan.
So many people(who have never been to Italy)
ask us why we don't go somewhere else....what can I say...they don't understand.
Thank you for sharing the name's of where you stayed and ate,
so many bloggers don't do that.
Thank you for sharing how you remembered the things you wanted to write down by sharing it in a letter with your mom.And where you ate.
Excellent advice about reviewing your pictures each day.
I will do that next trip.
Your car experience.....reminds me, that when arriving in Florence we were taken to our room by Taxi from the Train Station, it was terrifying. Right then and there we all decided that we were not driving in Florence.We immediately cancelled our car we had reserved.Deciding that we would take day trip tour's.Which we did.
One to San Gimignano,knowing we would have to return there one day,and we have.We have driven in Tuscany since then and love it.
But it can be quiet haring to rent and or return a car.
On one of our trips we returned a car in Pisa.
My husband dropped me and our 2 friends and "ALL" our luggage off at the Train Station, while he returned the car. The garage dictator's barely acknowledged that he was there.So he jumped out of the car, left the engine running, only hoped it all worked out, threw his hands in the air and said " Only in Italy" then made a mad dash to catch the train with us,off to the Cinque Terre'.
But thats what going to Italy is all about, taking one day at a time, laughing at yourself and enjoying the experience no matter what.
Nov 3rd, 2009, 01:11 PM
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Hi charuddy and sally. Sorry I didn't get back to you before but I am waiting for a lumbar fusion on my back and am not allowed on the computer very much. I'm so glad you enjoyed the trip report. Even I love re-reading it - it brings everything back so quickly. We didn't go to Italy in 2009, I was starting to have trouble with my back then and decided we'd do a mellow visit to Devon and Somerset. But I had to go to London and it was hell. So travel is off the books for now, hopefully once I have the surgery (horrible wait times in Canada), we'll be back to Italy. Take care.
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