IN THE DEL COL HOME TOWN!

Arrived in Pordenone!

Lucia Del Col

      It has been an adventure trying to post to the blog the last week.  As the last post indicated, the ship system was totally disfunctional.  It simple did not work!  Poor Amy the teck - she was beat up on a regular basis.  We have never encountered anything like it before!  When we got to Siena, we looked for 2 days trying to find a cafe (our B and B had WIFI only.)  Now I really need a lap top!  In any case I will try to post the next few days that we are here at the Best Western where they have a system that I can use.  It did take a few minutes to get on - I needed to say that I normally connect from Florida!  Go figure!

Nino Makes Keys

   In any case we were up early this morning and after
breakfast and headed to the train station in Siena around 8:00 am .  After taking a taxi to get to the B&B (not far but too hilly) we discovered an esculator that took us to the top of the hill close to the place.  It was just outside one of the main gates of

the walled city.   We managed to get the early train to

 Florence and thought that we had missed the stop but all was well.  We even discovered that we had an assigned car as well as seats.  The other train ride was an open ticket. We had not validated the ticket because it was open but the nice conductor did that for us.  Train ride was good with the exception of a young child that ran up and down the aisle and grabbed everything in site - including my MP3 player.  Arrived in Venice a few minutes late.  We were fortunate that the train there was on the same platform.  Arrived here at 1:50 as planned.   

Del Col Italian Family

 Judy and I had a bit to eat but as we left the hotel we got a message that Gina and Juditta were coming to pick us up at 4:30.  So a quick shower in a few minutes and off we go.

     As a side note the girl working at the desk asked if we had stayed before.  I think it was because Roy was here last year.  He must have left a bit tip - we were upgraded to a suite at no cost!

      We are both ready to go.  I will post on the stops in the Med as time permits over the next few days.  We did have 2 ship tours and they were well worth it.  More on that later...