Or, We Are Going to Freaking Italy!
So….we made the decision to go to Italy. Now what?
Since this is our 3rd trip, we did have some ideas of
visiting old favorites and seeing things we missed in the past. We could go for two weeks this time, which is
about a lifetime too short, but it is what we had in our vacation banks.
When? The Worlds Expo
is from May 1 – Oct 31. Okay…not June,
July or August, that is when families vacation.
And families tend to have children.
We like children, but if we can avoid them in mass, we are all right
with that.
Expo Website
So May? Or September/October? We were in Italy in May on our last 2 trips,
maybe early Fall would be nice. Nope, BF
(The Blog Fodder) wanted May, so May it is.
Now where in Italy?
Well, Milan obviously! Maybe
Venice, maybe Rome, Cinque Terra? Almalfi Coast? Florence?
I did know where we were NOT going! Verona.
No way, no how, uh-uh, fuhgeddaboudit.
And I blame Shakespeare. Or the
entrepreneur who decided to put a balcony in Verona, claiming it was Juliette’s
balcony. That’s right a fake balcony
that a fictitious character did not stand in.
And the tourists flock there in droves. That really, really, really, really annoys the snot out of BF. I’m even hoping we don’t see signs for the
town when we drive by, I can’t take the angst.
So while I am sure there are many other reasons to go to Verona, you
will not find us there.
So after much thinking and talking and reading and asking
and agonizing, we came up with the following itinerary. And by we, I mean me, with no objections and
a few suggestions from BF.
Day 1 Seattle to JFK to Milan
Day 2 Milan to Lake Como
Day 3 Lake Como
Day 4 Worlds Expo
Day 5 Worlds Expo
Day 6 Worlds Expo
Day 7 Venice
Day 8 Venice
Day 9 Padua
Day 10 Bologna
Day 11 Ravenna
Day 12 Ravenna/Assisi
Day 13 Assisi
Day 14 Siena
Day 15 Siena
Day 16 Piedmont
Day 17 Piedmont
Day 18 Go Home!
We are staying in Bellagio at Lake
Como. I’ve stayed at the fake one in
Vegas, so it made sense. I suspect we
will be recovering from jet lag and am planning a quiet day, an
as-early-as-we-can-get-it-in-Italy dinner and a nice snooze.
We have tickets for 3 days of fun
at the Worlds Expo. I don’t know much at
this point, but I expect it to be exciting.
The theme this year is “Feeding the Planet.”
In Venice we have a photography
tour and some sightseeing planned.
Padua is the home of my favorite
saint, Saint Ant’ny.
I have something special planned
for Bologna…you will just have to wait and see!
We went to Ravenna the last time in
Italy and just don’t feel we did it right.
We need to correct that error.
And see the REAL dang mosaics
Assisi – walk the pilgrim trail,
buy a St Francis Bobble head…side trip to Perugia for chocolate? They don’t like people from Near Seattle much
there, we’ll tell them we are Canadian, eh?
In Piedmont we are going to our
favorite Agriturismo. They make wine
there…good wine!
Then, unless I can convince BF
otherwise, we will go home….sigh!
I plan to write a blog page for
each day, when we get back, so stay tuned for our adventures!
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