Rome

After about 7 hrs on the plane we arrived at 12:35pm Italy time. I slept the entire flight...just in time for my coffee and muffin prior to landing. Kim however, sat awake the entire time. Good flight I thought...:) Tons more leg room than Air Transat!
Its a suprising 27C here today but a bit overcast.
ok....check it out....while picking up our baggage the conveyor stops after about half the bags come out...10 mins goes by.....we are both getting antsy, only to find that a loose strap from my bag got caught in the dumb thing before ripping it off and putting a fist size rip in my bag....Oops!...my bad (blush)
Found a shuttle to the hotel that made only 2 stops before ours...awesome.
Hotel Londra-Cargill....nice place ...nothing fancy but clean and in the midst of all the tourist stuff. Perfect!
Its about 3pm now...gonna clean, go get a bite to eat.....a beer and do some sight seeing baby ya!

Sadly this blog reads in reverse. To see the trip from the start you need to scroll to the bottom and work back up.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

San Gimignano

Our driving experience was much better than I expected….I was able to assimilate with the local drivers…beeping at anyone one who even thought about taking their foot off the gas….ignoring the speed limits….never saw a stop sign and squeezing by or into any spot on the road that my car would fit in order to not have to slow down.  It was awesome.!!!!!
Although I think Kim may have a few grey hairs?? 
We got her a bit quicker than the GPS had suggested it might take….I think it based its prediction on 100km/h……we averaged 150km/h….we were still getting passed. The cops were driving around keeping everyone in check. They would pass by…slow down in front of the line of cars for a km or so. That slowed everyone….. then he would speed off to the next long line….wag his finger and do the same thing to them.. Once they left it was hammer down again!!!
Arrived to this beautiful remote villa in the wine region of Tuscany…..going into San Gimignano this afternoon…