Italy: Rome – 2021

September 25, 2021

1. Cinque Terre is a string of centuries-old seaside villages on the rugged Italian Riviera coastline. In each of the 5 towns, colorful houses and vineyards cling to steep terraces, harbours are filled with fishing boats and trattorias turn out seafood specialties along with the Liguria region’s famous sauce, pesto. The Sentiero Azzurro cliffside hiking trail links the villages and offers sweeping sea vistas. 2. Pisa is a city in Italy's Tuscany region best known for its iconic Leaning Tower. Already tilting when it was completed in 1372, the 56m white-marble cylinder is the bell tower of the Romanesque, striped-marble cathedral that rises next to it in the Piazza dei Miracoli. 3. Florence, capital of Italy’s Tuscany region, is home to many masterpieces of Renaissance art and architecture. One of its most iconic sights is the Duomo, a cathedral with a terracotta-tiled dome engineered by Brunelleschi and a bell tower by Giotto. The Galleria dell'Accademia displays Michelangelo’s “David” sculpture. The Uffizi Gallery exhibits Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” and da Vinci’s “Annunciation.” 4. Rome, the “Eternal City,” brims with ancient history, from the Colosseum to the port of Ostia Antica to majestic Vatican City and the Sistine Chapel. History, art, architecture, and beauty plus gelato and pasta! 5. The Amalfi Coast is famous for its picturesque seaside towns, cliffs, and beaches. It's known for its stunning coastline and colorful villages with steep and narrow streets. Many towns along the Amalfi Coast have a rich historical legacy with important sights of historical and artistic value.

🙂 Wine. Pizza. Gelato. Silenzio Bruno!

🙁 Drivers!

25 September 2021 to 3 October 2021

After bidding farewell to Trent & Katie in Sardinia, we were very excited for Part 2 of our Italian Adventure. Our taxi transferred us to the Port for our 23h59 departure to Genoa in mainland Italy. The overnight ferry was very reasonably priced and very comfortable.

We arrived in Genoa and were met by our driver who would be with us for the duration of our trip. We had been in dialogue with Tiberlimo for several weeks to make all the necessary arrangements which included the driver and various tours and entrance tickets for our group. This had been a seamless process with excellent communication and advice for a reasonable price for our family. Our drive was supposed to take 1hr45min but there was a massive traffic jam on the motorway and it took about 3hours which meant minimising our time at Cinque Terre.

See link to Cinque Terre to see what we got up to there.

Next up was Pisa... please click the link to follow us on our journey to this special place where we were unexpectedly able to climb to the top of the tower!

After our thoroughly enjoyable stay here we headed to Florence… for some culture and wine tasting…

Next stop – Rome… please click on the link so that we can share all the fun that we had there.

The Amalfi Coast was calling … our first stop was to be Sorrento...

A wonderful day was had on the Isle of Capris.

We were supposed to climb Vesuvius but there was a torrential downpour of rain while we were wine tasting and they closed the mountain. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Pompeii and Herculaneum