June 9, 2012: Lago Maggiore and Lago di Como

We were up at a more normal time today, seven thirty.  Enough time to get ourselves ready before heading down to breakfast about as soon as breakfast was open.  Not quite immediately as a group of French guests, the only other guests that we have seen all this week other than the Norwegians, was just …

June 6, 2012: Off to Piedmont

I am writing today’s update while riding the Trenitalia from Montecatini to Genova as we zip along the Mediterranean coast. Hill towns, seaside villages, rolling farms, ancient churches and defensive towers zip by the windows as we fly along. Luciana is sleeping in her Ergo Carrier that Dominica is wearing and Liesl is quietly sitting …