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by | Apr 27, 2020

Adventure time

Adventure time

On every long voyage (and many smaller ones), there’s a moment when the best-laid plans go awry, itineraries get disrupted, Mother Nature wreaks havoc, and/or logistics get log-jammed. That’s when a trip becomes an “adventure”. You can’t predict when you’re going to...

Tuscan Time

Tuscan Time

Okay, even as I’ve nagged the rest of the family to post to our blog, I’ve been laggardly… Over a week since my last note and we’ve seen so much since Venice! I could blame it on slow wifi. (I won’t even try to post a photo, given the snail-like upload speed here.)...

On the road again…

On the road again…

We had a busy final few days in Bologna. I watched the last two days of the European/Africa qualifiers… which ended in disappointment for the Italian hosts, when their team dropped a one-run game to Spain (followed by a bench-clearing brawl) and then lost a final...

Game on!

Game on!

Bologna is the “business” part of our trip — 5 days of baseball, for a potential article or book about the the internationalization of the sport. The World Baseball Softball Confederation have organized the Europe/Africa Olympic qualifiers, split between stadiums in...

The many pleasures of Florence

The many pleasures of Florence

The joys of Florence! A busy few days — and very slow wifi — have kept us all from blogging. On Saturday morning, we left Rome and caught a 11:45am high-speed train to Florence, the landscapes of central Italy zipping past at us at 250 km/h, to arrive in the city’s...

Day 4: Vatican City

A trip to Vatican City Our last day in Rome started slowly as we slept in (sort of — not all of us slept) with plans (and tickets) to visit Vatican City, to see St. Peter’s Basilica, the Museums and especially the Sistine Chapel. First, we stretched our bared legs —...

Day 3: A day trip outside of Rome

Day 3: A day trip outside of Rome

Ostia Antica We got moving slowly on day 2 in Rome, only leaving the apartment after noon, after a restless sleep for just about everyone, nudging a little closer to re-aligning our sleep cycles. The plan: a day trip out of the city to the Romain ruins of Ostia Antica...

Day 2: A big day in Rome

Day 2: A big day in Rome

Day 2 I’d booked us morning tickets to the Colosseum for our first full day in Rome. Walk off the jet lag! See one of the city’s most famous monuments! Our AIrBnB — a quiet first floor apartment in an 18th-century building in the heart of the city — was just 10...