Getting ready for our trip!

May 2, 2013

   In less than a week we will be departing for Italy. I know it will be a wonderful trip because we are traveling with good friends, Merle and Buddy. Merle and I were suitemates in college and have remained friends. In fact we travel with two others, her roommate and my roommate, every year on a "Girlfriends Trip."
   We leave from LAX Wednesday, May 8, on a direct flight to Rome via Alitalia Airlines. We will be in Rome for three nights. On Sunday we take a train to Naples where we will be met by a guide who will take us to Pompeii for a tour and then onto our hotel in Positano on the gorgeous Amalfi Coast.  I have always wanted to go there and finally it is happening. We will be in Positano for 3 nights and then we will take the hydrofoil to the island of Capri where we will stay 2 nights.
   We return to Naples where we will pick up our rental car and drive to Cortona in Tuscany where we will stay for four nights. After Cortona we take a short train ride to Florence where we will stay 3 nights. We then return to Rome for one night and return home the next day. Merle and Buddy will go on to Lake Como from Florence. That is where they honeymooned 10 years ago.
  Right now I am in the throes of trying to narrow down my wardrobe because I can't take everything! It doesn't help that I can't fit in to some of the pants I wanted to take. I have been working hard to take off those pounds but it has been a very slow process.
   Anyway, I plan to keep a blog of our trip but don't expect daily entries as I did two years ago on our last trip.  That was just too hard to do every night. All of our hotels have WI-FI, except I am not sure about the one in Cortona. 
   I took Italian lessons from September through the middle of March. Sure hope I can remember enough to get by.

Ciao for now, Marie