When we arrived at Hotel Dei Cavalieri Milan, we were not having a good evening. The bag theft on the train from Malpensa had taken most of the excitement out of arrival day. We'd spent the best part of two hours at a police station filing a report, navigated the...
Our trip to dog-friendly Milan did not start the way I planned. We landed at Malpensa, debated the taxi versus the train, decided the journey time was roughly the same either way, and got on the train. One hour later, we stepped off at Milano Centrale and my friend...
https://youtu.be/PPYSxxpoMPs Flying into Venice with Daisy was one of those moments I will not forget any time soon. As the plane banked over the lagoon, I looked down and there it was. This little cluster of an island connected to the mainland by one long, skinny...
When the water taxi turned off the main channel and into the Grand Canal for the first time, I actually stopped breathing for a second. There it was. Venice. The buildings rising straight out of the water, the light bouncing off everything, gondolas bobbing by the...
The plan was never to go to Bolzano. We were supposed to have two nights in Venice, fly home, and call it a trip. But when the airline moved our flight and handed us an unexpected third night, we had a choice. Another day wandering the Venetian streets, or something...
Arriving by Water with a Shih Tzu I've had some good hotel arrivals, but pulling up by boat in Venice is something else. We'd booked a semi-private water taxi from Marco Polo Airport, and because Palazzo Barocci sits right beside the Sant'Angelo vaporetto stop on the...