Venice: A city to love or not
June 19, 2008 at 9:27 am | In Italy | Leave a CommentTags: Italy, Venice
Of the cities we visited, my favorite was Venice. I though it was a city to love.
Not only is it a beautiful city, it is a city of beautiful canals. Because of the canals, Venice is a city without automobile, bicycles, motorcycles, and trucks. Instead people navigate Venice by foot, gondola, water taxi, and gondola ferries. That makes it easy to walk through the cities.
Unfortunately, my wife hurt her foot early in the trip, and she was less pleased with the city because it is hard to navigate with a cane. Also the food in Venice was limited, and everything was expensive.
Still, I want to go back to Venice someday.
Naples: A hectic resort
June 3, 2008 at 2:12 pm | In Italy | Leave a CommentTags: Italy, Naples
Naples looked beautiful and peaceful from the ship. On land, Naples still looked beautiful, but not peaceful. For such a glorious city, it was extremely hectic, as if everyone suffered from a caffeine overdose. The traffic laws seem to be based on the assumption that no one will obey them, so crossing a street is an act of daring. Even the tour buses drove like crazy, which made sightseeing a tad difficult. Still, it was a beautiful town.
Tale of Two City Tours: Florence and Rome
May 30, 2008 at 5:05 pm | In Italy | Leave a CommentTags: Florence, Italy, Rome
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- Florence Italy
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- Rome Italy
Florence was on a Monday and Rome was on a Tuesday.
The Florence tour was an all-day trip that involved a lot of walking. Because my wife broke her toe early in the trip, she wasn’t able to go. She was missed, and much of the trip I was thinking how much she would have enjoyed it. Florence was interesting, the tour guide was friendly and informative, and the tour group was a nice group.
The Easy Rome tour was a much shorter trip, which involved little walking, so my wife could go. Rome was less interesting, the tour guide was a tad sarcastic, and the tour group had chronic complainers. The complainers complained about Italy’s small roads, the low levels of air conditioning, the costs of gasoline, the walking, the tour guide, and basically life in general.
The results of the differences between these two tour guides and two tour groups, contributed to my liking Florence a lot more than Rome. Probably I would have liked Florence better if I had a better tour guide or was with a better tour group, but I will never know.
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