Trips, Pics, and Tales

After we relaxed a bit in the afternoon, we were ready for our first evening in Italy. I had planned a Food Tour. This is one of my favorite things to do in Europe, especially Italy! I always recommend it to my clients, especially if they can do it on their first night or two in their destination. It really brings the food and culture alive! We were meeting our group in a plaza by the Rialto Bridge, so we had a nice leisurely walk, taking more pictures of course! The square where we waited to meet our group.  Our guide showed up and there were about 10 people all together in our tour. We all introduced ourselves and started out on the tour. We decided to take care of coffee's and dessert early on because those shops close earlier than the other stops on the tour.  Our guided didn't want us to have to rush, so we voted and were all good with dessert first. One of the fun things about a food tour is not only tasting everything, bu...

This is a big trip for us! Keith and I traveled to Italy and a cruise to the Greek Islands, just the two of us! As much as I travel, and as we travel as a family, it's been years since the two of us have been able to go away! We have gone on a couple of short trips, a weekend away once for my birthday and then a shorter 4 day trip, but it's been 10 years since the two of us have gone on a longer, real trip together alone!  We started our journey with a nonstop flight on American Airlines out of Philadelphia to Venice. The flight was good, I'm not sure that either of us slept very much, but when we landed we were ready to go! The view as we sailed out over the Jersey beaches Almost to Italy! The Alps covered in snow! We collected our luggage and met our driver who would take us to our water taxi.  We had a great ride into Venice where we checked into our hotel for the night. We were dropped off right at our hotel, th...