Today was a sea day.  For experienced travelers sea days are the best.  There is none of the hustle bustle of a port day with the almost artificial obligation to get out early and see everything that there is to see. Sea days mean doing whatever you want.  In our instance that was sleeping in, […]

Capri is one of the great tourist stops.  It is so great that there are too many people here often which can cause tremendous congestion and commotion. None of the action or the beauty is at the marina. Tip – Whatever you do try and arrive before 10 AM or after 2 PM during summer; […]

What a beautiful day we had. The morning was spent walking around Amalfi. Like the other towns on the Amalfi coast, it is quaint, charming, lovely and full of friendly people. Although the coast is named for this town, it is quite small, quite Italian and not packed with tourists. That adds to its charm. Most […]

Today was a transit day. Our Cannes stay came to an end and we embarked upon a one week cruise on the Wind Star. Our journey leaves from Rome, travels down the Italian coast and back to Spain. I’ll have lots of details this week. Now we are headed towards the Amalfi coast which some […]

                  For ten years Cannes has been the home to the Festival for pyrotechnical arts. It is an International musical fireworks competition. There are six performances annually and tonight was one of them. I have never seen anything quite like it. We viewed it along with 200,000 […]

A nice place to walk narrow streets, see little stores and have a nice lunch, St. Paul de-Vence is a former walled city near Antibes that sits high on a hill with peaceful pastoral views. However it is really all about contemporary art galleries. There are many and they are interesting. It’s definitely worth a […]

Today was another lazy Cannes day. The routine gets repetitious, but seems to work just fine for us. It goes something like this: Breakfast on the terrace Exercise Lunch in a French/Italian brasserie Beach and/or shop Nap Dinner at someplace special Ice cream on the walk back to the hotel We tried to break up […]

Do I have a sign on my forehead that says “American Sucker”? You may recall that we left off yesterday where they asked us to volunteer to room to an upgraded room, a nice suite, in order to accommodate some other guests. Always being happy to help, (especially since they gave us the night for […]

I did it. I survived a breakfast with no croissant, pain au chocolat or any other bread. The trick was to order room service and not be tempted. That handled, it was time for Allyn and me to head to the gym. Again, I was amazed because I actually was looking forward to it and […]