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 …

June 4, 2012: Vienna to Venice on the Night Train and Tuscany

We got onto the night train in Vienna (this is actually last night, the evening of the third) at twenty until nine.  We got settled in after a while.  The two person cabin was extremely tight for the four of us, especially with Luciana attempting to put herself to bed the moment that we got …