One of the dangers of long term travel is that you need days dedicated to doing all kinds of utilitarian stuff, stuff that isn’t fun or interesting but needs your attention. Today was not supposed to be that day for us but it ended up being it anyway, much to our chagrin. We got up …
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June 13, 2012: Barcelona Tour Bus Day
Today is our primary tour bus day. Our chance to really get out and see the sights of Barcelona. While I was out for a walk last night I discovered that there was a playground, just a little one, right down the street from our hotel as a large fountain in the middle of the …
June 12, 2012: Off to Spain
We did nothing this morning but sleep in and stay in the hotel room in Milan until it was time to head out to go to the airport. We walked over to Milano Centrali which was right across the street from our hotel, got a light breakfast at the station and caught the shuttle bus …
June 11, 2012: Milan
Today is our wasted “travel day.” Originally we were supposed to only have to go to Torino today, a thirty to forty five minute trip, where we would catch the night train to Barcelona. So we had planned on having most of this day in Neive to relax and do some light, local sight seeing …
June 10, 2012: Village Shopping
Dominica and I got hardly any sleep last night and what we did get was poor. Maybe two hours at best. We spent most of the night crying interspersed with talking about memories of Oreo. We went to breakfast this morning first just Dominica while I watched the girls and then Liesl and I while …