Category Archives: Travel

July 21 Tuesday – How Do They Get The Geraniums Into The Wine?

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Risa

The Wines of Villa Antinori If yesterday was “Chrystal Day”, today is “Risa Day”. I woke up with big welts from the mosquitoes. Fortunately none of them were on my face! Florian, our cheerful young driver, picked us up at 9:30 … Continue reading →

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July 20 Monday – Celebrating our Total Lack of Complex Dietary Requirements

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Risa

The food! My God, the FOOD!! I’m just going to say it: this was Chrystal’s day from start to end. The routine established itself early. Coffee drinkers get ready and head one by one down to the coffee shop below … Continue reading →

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July 19 Sunday – All Those Years of Sunday School … Wasted!

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Risa

Day of the Markets Heading out on  our first full day in Florence, we decided to hit the markets! Today was ear-marked as market day, and we had many successes – 4 or 5 or maybe 17 purses for Sofia, a … Continue reading →

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July 18 Saturday – OMG I didn’t even notice that!

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Risa

Bella Firenze! After the departing of friends and family, Risa, Andi, Kinga and Chrystal headed off to meet up in the train station. Because my Rome landlord asked us for an early departure to prepare for his next guests, I ended up … Continue reading →

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Day 10 – What’s the country code for phoning Germany?

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Risa

March 23, 2014 Hollywood Studios The household of invalids dragged ourselves out of bed so that we could head to Disney’s Hollywood Studios park by 9-9:30 in order to be able to get Fast Passes to a few key rides. … Continue reading →

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Day 9 – The Case of the Missing Cheese Pizza

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Risa

March 22, 2014 Flex Day Forecasted lightning in the afternoon lead us to spend today as a flex day and do our last Disney Park day tomorrow. Ultimately, this was lucky as a number of suspected infections resulted in a … Continue reading →

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Day 8 – We’re next in line at the clinic

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Risa

March 21, 2014 Universal Studios With an unknown sickness starting to spread, we decided to have a bit of a sleep-in and a slow start before heading to Universal Studios, and anticipated staying later instead, so that we could potentially … Continue reading →

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Day 7 – Just limp a little when you get out of the car

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Risa

March 20, 2014 Flex day Today was a much-needed flex day, and the group split up 4 ways. March Madness double header: James and a boatload of the kids (Connor, Riley, Matthew and Jack) went to Orlando to see Pittsburgh … Continue reading →

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Day 6 – There’s meat in the head as well, right?

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Risa

March 19, 2014 Kennedy Space Center and Daytona Beach KENNEDY! We had a fairly full contingent for the Kennedy excursion. James, Jane and Tyron headed for the beach and Mason stayed back at the house not feeling well. Somewhat surprisingly, … Continue reading →

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Day 5 – That monkey is a little too happy to see us …

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Risa

March 18, 2014 Animal Kingdom Animal kingdom day, with no real idea what to expect. Walking into the park felt immediatey like walking around a well-landscaped zoo. We scooted over to a Fast Pass kiosk to get passes for the … Continue reading →

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