Entre Les Murs

Trip to Italy

Our friends, A&M, took the opportunity of her milestone birthday to have a party in Umbria.  Half a dozen guests joined them in a country villa near Perugia that rents suites and spent several days exploring the area together.

Janet and I took a long week, ten days in all, and spent the latter half of it on our own in one of my favorite cities, Venice.  Janet's expertise with travel bookings paid off by securing for us excellent rooms at the Hilton on Giudecca, which had its own launch to ferry guests back and forth to the city proper.


On our way to Venice, we stopped for one night in Ravenna.  The medieval mosaics are remarkable indeed; but the side trip was primarily so that I could visit the grave of my grandfather, who is buried there in the Commonwealth War Cemetery.

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