Exploring the Blog

As it is with all blogs (which are meant to be diaries or journals), the most recent entry is at the top. This means that our grand trip to Italy in June 2010 - Venice, Florence, Cinque Terre and our two-week stay at Palazzo Catalani in the non tourist town of Soriano nel Cimino (from which we explored Umbria, Tuscany, Lazio, and Rome) - begins at the end.

The final entry describes Palazzo Catalani and Soriano nel Cimino; however, there are additional entries that tell about market day in Soriano, the Tour of Soriano nel Cimino with Floriana, and the Taste of Tuscia - also with Floriana - which involved wine and olive oil tasting and a pasta and pizza making and eating day with Floriana's mother, Mama Maria.

The blog was completed in February 2011 - it took a long time to write about our adventures and prepare the slideshow of photos! Each written journal entry is preceded by a slideshow that is housed in Picasa. Click on the photo thumbnail, and when it takes you to Picasa, select slideshow in the upper left quandrant. The default is 3 seconds and you can manually change that to a longer time if desired.

Each entry has been manually dated to occur on the correct date. To skip to an entry, look in the blog archive down the left hand side. The entries for Venice occur in May.

I hope you enjoy the blog and that it provides information to make your travels full of adventure, free of worry, and fun. It brought me a lot of joy to relive my memories. It's definitely a bit long but I really only did it to please myself. Feel free to email me if you have questions or comments.