March 24, 2020: The news over the past 2-3 weeks has been beyond distressing on many levels from every part of the world. But the situation in Italy has been heart breaking. As I write this, the death toll there now exceeds that in China and the entire country is on lock down. As I […]
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More European Driving Adventures
By now anyone who’s read my ‘Finding Italy’ post must be wondering why I’ve continued to try to drive in Europe. My ‘adventures’ remind me of National Lampoon’s European Vacation. In 2015 my sister asked if we could go to Provence and see some of the towns I visited on my first bike trip. As […]
Read MorePerugia, Lake Trasimeno, Assisi and Cortona
I’ve written in some other posts that I chose Perugia as part of our 2018 itinerary because my sister wanted to see Assisi and it looked relatively easy to get there from Perugia. I had also hoped to see some of the other towns of Umbria, known as the ‘green heart’ of Italy, but found […]
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