Here are some updated photos from Susan's visit to Gigaro. What a great time the three of us had!
Enjoy!
Corst and Rosemary
Monday, June 15, 2009
France 2
Susan's birthday dinner at La Ferme Ladouceur in Ramatuelle
Le Domaine de La Croix
Ready for wine tasting in the Var
Ro eating the "fresh" cheese at La Petite FontaineFrance 2009
Susan trying to avoid the smelly cheese
Le Petite Fontaine
Trying to squeeze out one more glassWednesday, June 3, 2009
pics
On Mary's Bridge at Neuschwanstein - King Ludwig's Castle
Really really cold Alpen water in Germany
Linderhof grounds
Linderhof - another of Ludwig's Castlespics part 3
Triberg Germany the cuckoo clock capital of the world
On the Luge in Germany
Corst with Molly's newest toy
Part 1
Honfleur Harbor France
Sabine and Corstiaan
Sweet Molly
Ro and Sabine with a surprise guest in HonfleurRound Two of Co and Ro Go
Originally we did not plan to update the Blog on this trip, but it really makes it easier to communicate with everyone.
As most of you know we left Dallas for Frankfurt on Saturday 16 May. Since then we have been in the following places:
Rothenburg o/d Tauber - Ro celebrated turning 45.
Two Audi Factories in Neckarsulm and Ingolstad
Munich
Salzburg
Schwangau - Crazy King Ludwig's castles
Germany's Black Forest
Baden-Baden
Belgium with Corst's Aunt Arlette and Uncle Richard
Normandy with Corst's Uncle Bobi, Aunt Ninke, their adorable puppy Molly and special guest star cousin Sabine
The Loire Valley
We are now in Tavel in the Provence and will go to see family friends the Anderson's for the next two days.
Saturday 6 June - we are in our house in Gigaro!
Enjoy the pictures!
As most of you know we left Dallas for Frankfurt on Saturday 16 May. Since then we have been in the following places:
Rothenburg o/d Tauber - Ro celebrated turning 45.
Two Audi Factories in Neckarsulm and Ingolstad
Munich
Salzburg
Schwangau - Crazy King Ludwig's castles
Germany's Black Forest
Baden-Baden
Belgium with Corst's Aunt Arlette and Uncle Richard
Normandy with Corst's Uncle Bobi, Aunt Ninke, their adorable puppy Molly and special guest star cousin Sabine
The Loire Valley
We are now in Tavel in the Provence and will go to see family friends the Anderson's for the next two days.
Saturday 6 June - we are in our house in Gigaro!
Enjoy the pictures!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Ciao Italia!
It's so great to need reading glasses ... all the time!
The super clear water of the Med
Our morning breakfast spread here at our hotel
No we're not on stilts. The adorable man in the middle was our driver to our favorite restaurant in Sorrento.
Hard to believe, but our Italian adventure is coming to an end. We've had an amazing time in this wonderful country. The people of Italy are so nice. Friendly, warm and welcoming. Very proud of their country.
We leave Sorrento early tomorrow morning to drive to Rome, then fly to London for the night. Our goal is to catch a show in the West End tomorrow night then ... Thursday morning we fly home.
Once we're home we'll do a few updates to to blog on food we places to see, and places to avoid.
Until then ... Ciao from Corst and Ro
Monday, March 16, 2009
Sorrento
Sunday afternoon, after a "short" 1 1/2 hour drive from the Pompeii area we made it to Sorrento. Traffic getting here was something else. Since this is the low season we keep saying, we can't imagine what it's like here in July!
After all the "city" travel it feels like we're on a vacation from our vacation. Sorrento is a lovely town, on the Italian coast with a sweet feel. We're in a great hotel with a truly amazing view, you'll see the pics.
Yesterday we spent the day walking around the area, and had dinner at a real "authentic" Sorrento restaurant. Great food, great service, full of Italians, not tourists.
Today, we hung around the hotel to enjoy the swanky vibe. Tomorrow we plan to squeeze in our last official Italian shopping day.
We leave for London early, early Wednesday morning, then head home Thursday.
It may sound cliche, especially for the two of us, but this really was the trip of a lifetime. Enjoy the pics.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Vesuvius-apalooza
Today was a day all about that crazy volcano Vesuvius and the town it covered, Pompeii.
This morning after about an hour-long winding drive from our hotel we arrived at the parking lot of Mount Vesuvius. Of course this was after passing four Italian trinket stands selling all sorts of Vesuvius stuff. Yes, you can buy an urn, little versions of the mountain (elevation 4,000 feet) six little gemstones in a box, and the obligatory Vesuvius wine. No, there are not vineyards in the crater.
We paid to park, paid to enter the park and began our climb. 30 minutes straight up hill. After huffing and puffing our way up, we reached the top. What an amazing view. Who knew Naples was so huge? The city sprawls for miles at your feet. Then there is the view of the Med. Stunning.
While we were up there Miss V coughed up a couple puffs of smoke for us. No hot lava, but enough for a great photo op. After an hour up there shooting pictures, and chatting with a couple of high school seniors from Boston we started our decent. It's always so much faster going down!
Now ... off to Pompeii. Pompeii was a town of 20,000 that lived just like a normal city would. There were street vendors, theaters, folding walls, kitchens, baths and even a sewer system that worked so perfectly that we copy it today. The cobble stoned streets (to us) were actually the water system in place in town. At most intersections you would find two to three large stones that people used to walk from one street side walk to another. The lower street (sewer system) was flushed daily so that people did not live in filth or disease. Sewer streets that were wide enough to accommodate horse drawn carts had the path of the cart worn into the stone (pictures included) the streets they didn't want carts to go down simply had had three tall marble slabs before they began making it impossible for a cart to pass. Carts were a standard size so that they could roll down the path and pass over the elevated walking stones.
Baths had heated floors as well as grooved walls and ceilings to capture moisture and run it down the proper channels. The richest man in town had a wonderful home with a large courtyard in the middle of his property. He had several mosaics in the property and lived a very nice existence in the Pompeii of 600 B.C. Check out the pictures of the items I mentioned. It's quite a place to visit.
This morning after about an hour-long winding drive from our hotel we arrived at the parking lot of Mount Vesuvius. Of course this was after passing four Italian trinket stands selling all sorts of Vesuvius stuff. Yes, you can buy an urn, little versions of the mountain (elevation 4,000 feet) six little gemstones in a box, and the obligatory Vesuvius wine. No, there are not vineyards in the crater.
We paid to park, paid to enter the park and began our climb. 30 minutes straight up hill. After huffing and puffing our way up, we reached the top. What an amazing view. Who knew Naples was so huge? The city sprawls for miles at your feet. Then there is the view of the Med. Stunning.
While we were up there Miss V coughed up a couple puffs of smoke for us. No hot lava, but enough for a great photo op. After an hour up there shooting pictures, and chatting with a couple of high school seniors from Boston we started our decent. It's always so much faster going down!
Now ... off to Pompeii. Pompeii was a town of 20,000 that lived just like a normal city would. There were street vendors, theaters, folding walls, kitchens, baths and even a sewer system that worked so perfectly that we copy it today. The cobble stoned streets (to us) were actually the water system in place in town. At most intersections you would find two to three large stones that people used to walk from one street side walk to another. The lower street (sewer system) was flushed daily so that people did not live in filth or disease. Sewer streets that were wide enough to accommodate horse drawn carts had the path of the cart worn into the stone (pictures included) the streets they didn't want carts to go down simply had had three tall marble slabs before they began making it impossible for a cart to pass. Carts were a standard size so that they could roll down the path and pass over the elevated walking stones.
Baths had heated floors as well as grooved walls and ceilings to capture moisture and run it down the proper channels. The richest man in town had a wonderful home with a large courtyard in the middle of his property. He had several mosaics in the property and lived a very nice existence in the Pompeii of 600 B.C. Check out the pictures of the items I mentioned. It's quite a place to visit.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Internet in Assisi
Assisi
View from our hotel in Assisi
The Church of St Francis
The Clouds of Tuscany
Siena under construction
A couple of "spritz" for lunch
The view from our room in San Gimingano - not too bad
Sheep! And the shepherd! Look close.
Yes in the land of the monk of the animals we have the Internet. Not at our hotel, but at a small bar full of Italian tweens gaming and looking at You Tube. In any case, you can see what we have been up to the past couple of days.
Renting the car at the Florence airport, we headed south toward San Gimignano, a hilltop town in the middle of Tuscany. Adorable. We stayed in a huge room at the top of a converted bell tower. We had stunning views of the Tuscan hillside as you can see from the photos above.
Wednesday we spent the day in Siena. A lovely student filled town. Chic, but not as trendy as Florence.
Thursday morning we left for Assisi. The land of the animal-loving monk. St Francis' tomb is impressive under the nave of the church. Yes, a couple more churches. Sweet Corstiaan agreed to drive me a couple hours out of our way to see this amazing town. We were just too close by not to see it.
Tonight we are safely ensconced in Hotel Ideale www.gotelideale.it if you are interested in our view and tomorrow we depart for our five hour drive to the Amalfi Coast. I'll be making sandwiches for the trip, but you can be sure the drive will be well documented.
Until then ...
Corstiaan and Rosemary
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