Travelogues, Part Due

Thanks all for sharing in my trip and commiserating with my sad foreign language skills :-) Bron, look forward to seeing you at RWA and Toni, sadly, we wont be getting to Naples on this trip (or Rome or Florence, though I hope to someday.) What we have seen is lovely, even though yesterday minor tummy trouble kept me in the hotel room--where I watched Italian versions of The Runaway Bride, Tremors, and CSI :-) J thinks that perhaps I got a little too adventurous at an exotic cheese tasting, but I think it was just all the travel weirdness and excitement catching up to me.

Luckily, the hotel here is lovely--art everywhere and a beautiful marble shower (no weird, funky shower curtains that seem to attack you at so many hotels). I wish I'd known beforehand that European hotels only provide towels, not washcloths, and I would have packed some. But the true adjustment is that there's no ice in soft drinks--luckily, it only got seriously hot one afternoon.

The high point has been Il Duomo (the Cathedral in Italy) and I have like a bazillion pictures to upload--or maybe I'll just pick my favorite three or four--when I'm back on a high speed connection and real-sized keyboard. Today, I'm doing a ferry ride on the lake, but for the more adventurous, there's the "Como Flight School." Bron, take note :-) It's an amphibious plane that goes over the water and circles some villas, and the ride is supposed to be breathtaking.

Ciao!