Month: May 2009

Venice Part two and on to Trieste! Venice was beautiful, but not a city that you can spend more than a weekend in. Our two nights up we grabbed the big regional train to Trieste… a sprawling industrial and dismal port city known for its heavy eastern European influences and sea food. In Trieste we…

I’ve been having some real issues getting foto’s and blogs posted due to some internet complications. As such please be patient. I’m approximately 780 foto’s behind in my postings and four blogs. Its frustrating for me as well! Venice to come as soon as I’ve got a day to spend uploading!

We pulled into Venice San. Lucia around 11am and disembarked from the cavernous train. As we waited for a chance to step off the train through the narrow doorways I spied a large red backpack with a Canadian emblem emblazoned on the back flap. I started chuckling to myself considering the size of the not…

Without Internet access its hard to communicate, but ended up in Venice just outside the central city: loving it and having a blast full blog on 5-5-09 and 5-6-09 tomorrow night!

The Train to Padova: Electric plugs on Trains? In second Class? Hot damn this is great! We board our regional train from Verona to Venice – stopping In Padova for 4.20 euro a person. Not bad, we get on the train and find that not only is the train better quality but we lucked out,…

Verona Day 2: We woke up at 6 having struggled through the night with the quiet of our hotel, we’d found a little low cost 3 star in Verona. Albergo Trento off the main drag – Porta Nuova leading into Verona’s inner city. After a quick breakfast and preparations for the day we grabbed my…

We took the 9:23 regional train from Como to Milano Pta. Garibaldi for 10.80 Euro. Regional commuters make traveling across Italy reasonable – outside of these trains transport like everything else tied to the euro is pressing our budget to its limits. We’re getting a feel for travel costs and associated hotel costs. In a…

We took our train at 9:05 from Milano Pta. Garibaldi to Como San Giovanni. Scintillated by the beauty of the surrounding hills, growing on each other and creating valleys and canyons leading toward the lake, we stepped off the train into the small station fifteen minutes from Switzerland. We walk down through the park in-front…