judywong | Globetrotting Journals

15 Aug 2012

Barcelona – Frankfurt – SFO: The Long Day Of Traveling Home

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Your ads will be inserted here byEasy Plugin for AdSense.Please go to the plugin admin page toPaste your ad code OR Suppress this ad slot. Up at 7 am; woke Marie up at 7:50 am. 8:30 am: Joined Jordi with Pau … Continued

14 Aug 2012

Barcelona: Sushi/Parc Guell/Sagrada Familia/Tapas

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Your ads will be inserted here byEasy Plugin for AdSense.Please go to the plugin admin page toPaste your ad code OR Suppress this ad slot. 9:20 AM Breakfast of buttered toast and tea. 12:30 PM Marie and I began walking … Continued

13 Aug 2012

Barcelona: Shopping At The Bull Ring

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Your ads will be inserted here byEasy Plugin for AdSense.Please go to the plugin admin page toPaste your ad code OR Suppress this ad slot. 9:30 AM So quiet. Is our host family awake? When should we move about? When I stepped … Continued

12 Aug 2012

Rome – Barcelona: Farewell Rome; Hello Barcelona

by judywong | posted in: 2012 August 12 | 0

10:20 AM Breakfast of croissants and pound cake. Before 11:00 AM, we checked out; leaving our baggage in the hotel’s storage closet. Marie and I walked around the area searching for more souvenirs. I bought a tee shirt for Michelle. I … Continued

11 Aug 2012

Rome: Angels and Demons According To Robert: Sorting Facts and Fiction

by judywong | posted in: 2012 August 11 | 0

8:30 AM Breakfast of croissants and pound cake. 9:10 AM At Barberini Metro station to find the iron gates closed. The Redline is down at Ottaviano. Marie and I dashed to Spagna. 9:23 AM Spagna Metro station’s iron gates were … Continued

10 Aug 2012

Rome: Shopping Success

by judywong | posted in: 2012 August 10 | 0

9:35 AM I asked Marie if she wanted to get up for omelets. By 10:00 AM Marie was ready to go. For breakfast, we ordered eggs and ham omelet, but were given a plate of two eggs over easy with two thin … Continued

9 Aug 2012

Rome: Vatican and Ancient Rome

by judywong | posted in: 2012 August 09 | 0

I didn’t sleep well. I’m always worried that the wake up call won’t happen, or I’ll sleep through it. But, the wake up call rang at 7:00 am sharp. Marie and I had breakfast of 2 cheese and ham sandwiches with … Continued

8 Aug 2012

Florence – Rome: Train Ride and Casing Out Rome

by judywong | posted in: 2012 August 08 | 0

After breakfast and briefly back to bed, we checked out of our room at 10:45 am. As timed, 15 minutes later we were standing at the Santa Maria Terminal for our train number 1917 destined for Napoli. Not knowing Italy … Continued

7 Aug 2012

Florence: Hannibal Hunting

by judywong | posted in: 2012 August 07 | 0

8:30 am: As I turned over in my bed when I awoke, I noticed Marie was checking her phone. Thinking that she’d been up for a while I suggested we dash downstairs before the hotel closed breakfast at 9 am. Within … Continued

6 Aug 2012

Florence: Best of Tuscany: Siena/Chianti/San Gimignano/Pisa

by judywong | posted in: 2012 August 06 | 0

7 AM wake up call. We stopped for breakfast downstairs. 8 AM Out the door and around the corner to the tour bus meeting point. We checked in with Michelle, who introduced us to Fabio our driver. We left for … Continued

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