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Roma
We left Milan by train on 3 October going from the 2nd largest train station, Milano Centrale to the largest station in Italy, Roma Termini which is less than 1 km from our Airbnb in central Rome. We walked to our new home and were met by our lovely host Stefania who oriented us to…
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Milano
Next stop Milan by train from Verona. The Italian trains have been very comfortable with reserved seating and drinks and snacks being served in business class. The express trains get up to nearly 200 kilometers per hour so they are also much faster than driving. After settling into our Airbnb we had lunch and walked…
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Verona, City of Love
On 27 September the seven of us boarded a water taxi to the train station for the next leg of Tina’s 60th birthday trip. Verona, a UNESCO world heritage site, is a city in northern Italy with a medieval old town along the beautiful Adige river. It is famous for being the setting of Shakespeare’s Romeo…
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Venice with friends
We left Boston on September 21 heading for Venezia Italia to meet up with five of our traveling mates. Henry & Andrew, our stalkers from Berlin, were of course there. Our neighbors from Boston; Margaret Deutsch, Peggy Scott and Tina Scarlata also joined us. This trip was planned by Tina as a 60th birthday trip…
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Rocky Mountain High
Labor Day Weekend in Denver. Friday we did a three mile run without stopping, maybe we are getting acclimated??? We make dinner for Matt & Claire prior to Matt bicycling to the first of three Phish concerts this weekend. He has attended all of their local concerts for 15 years. Saturday we stayed home, finishing…
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Denver
We have chosen to spend four weeks in Denver in order to get better acquainted with grandchild number 6 and to meet number 8 for the first time. Mae Louise is the daughter of our son Matt and his wife Claire. She was born on September 11, 2015 while we were in Tuscany with Sue…
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Coming to America
On Wednesday August 15 we left our Stockholm Airbnb taking an Uber to the nearby Södra train station and headed to Arlanda for our 14:10 flight to London. We have pared down to three suitcases for this trip which made us more mobile. Check in went smoothly and we enjoyed a leisurely breakfast and did…
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On our own in Stockholm
We are finally alone in Stockholm after having had a great time traveling around a bit with family, meeting more of our extended family and touring with Andrew and Henry. Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic Countries with about 2.3 million people in its metropolitan area. The city…
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The stalkers are in Stockholm
They’re back! Honestly we are seeing more of these guys now in Europe than we ever did when they lived upstairs from us in Boston. Our one bedroom Airbnb’s are within a mile of each other here in Södermalm making it easy to meet up. Of course we are talking about Andrew and Henry, our…
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Sweden with family
Caution, this is longer than usual as it involves children and grandchildren. Wednesday 25 July we fly out of Gatwick with son Geoffrey on Norwegian Air headed for Stockholm Sweden. This is our first time ever in Sweden and we are looking forward to both a new country and to meeting new relatives. Geoffrey married Sofi…
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Stockholm Urban Trail
We just finished such a fun running experience that we want to document it before we forget any details. On 1 July while in London we were researching runs in Stockholm when we came across the Stockholm Urban Trail which was billed as a unique running experience in the centre of Stockholm City and they…
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London with Geoffrey
James Geoffrey, the youngest of our five offspring flew into London on Sunday 22 July to spend some time in London with us before we all fly to Stockholm Sweden to meet up with the rest of Geoffrey’s family. We had tickets to tour The State Rooms of Buckingham Palace on Monday the 23rd as…
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London with Andrew & Henry
Our European stalkers, Henry and Andrew moved into our London flat a few short hours after Helen and Sue left on July 16. No time for us to get lonely, just enough time to refresh the guest room for more good friends that we love to have visit us. Andrew Buzzi and Henry Richard Maniace,…
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London with Sue & Helen
We started writing this several weeks ago but have been much to busy to complete it until now. Jack left us the morning of 7 July and we have 2 ½ weeks left in London which are packed with three different sets of friends coming and going. The first are Sue Rhodes and Helen Fletcher…
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The Ladies of Wimbledon.
There was Helen & Meech and Sue times two Janine & Sandy – made six total to view Ladies of Wimbledon ready to play Dressed in their outfits, so bright, and so gay! Underground, over ground, adventuring, we Travelled by Uber, Wimbledon tennis to see Making good use of the booze in our packs Bubbles…