Farewell to France – St. Malo (the city and the Brittany Ferry)
Our last stop in France was the city of St. Malo, a port city on the English Channel of approximately 50,000 people in the Brittany region of France. It has…
Angers, France
Our next stop in France was Angers (pronounced “ahn-hey”), a city in Western France southwest of Paris, on the Maine River a tributary of the Loire. The city has just…
A Different View of Paris
Our first visit to Paris was in 2010, during our first trip to Europe. We did many of the typical tourist things on that trip – stayed within view of…
Lyon, France
Our next stop in France was Lyon. Lyon is the 3rd largest city in France, with a population of just over 500,000. It is at the confluence of the Saone…
Antibes, France
Our first stop in France was in Antibes, a city of just over 75,000 people on what is known as the French Riviera, the Mediterranean coastline in Southeast France. It…
Last Two Stops in Italy
After leaving Cinque Terre, we spent two nights in two places on our way to France. Nervi, Genoa The first was the Nervi neighborhood of Genoa. We had been to…
Cinque Terre
Our next stop on our self-guided tour of Italy was Cinque Terre (Five Lands). The name refers to five villages located within Cinque Terre National Park, which is also a…
Hanging out in Livorno
Our next stop in Italy was Livorno, a city of approximately 150,000 in Tuscany on the Ligurian Sea, which is north of Corsica where many (including me) may have thought…
Living Roman for a Few Days
You might be expecting a post about visiting various ancient sites, art, or other tourist-oriented things in Rome. This is not a post about that, because we didn’t do any…
March-April 2025 Transatlantic Cruise – Emerald Princess
(Edited 4/23/25 to add our bridge tour) In late March/early April 2025 we took a transatlantic cruise from Fort Lauderdale to Civitavecchia, the port closest to Rome. Several stops on…