People don’t take trips, trips take people.” ~ John Steinbeck
Okay, two years of very little traveling (outside of many required trips to the Seattle area) and Andrew and I are off to check out Italy and Spain!
We are flying to Fort Lauderdale and boarding the New Statendam to take a Trans-Atlantic cruise which will take us to Rome in a comfortable 21 days! For more information on where we will go check it out here. I am really looking forward to the 6 days at sea – thinking of all the knitting and recording of Librivox books I can do! Oh and the walks on the promenade deck – the possibilities are endless!
Once in Rome, we will check it out for 5 days and then drive north through Tuscany staying in Siena and Florence with side trips to several places. On May 16rh it will be International Celiac Awareness Day and I will be doing my normal monthly webinar – GF101 for the Canadian Celiac Association – from Siena, Italy! What an awesome way to celebrate! Then we will take the fast train to Venice to visit the city again (this time not when flooded) before getting on the Oosterdam and cruising back to Barcelona. You can find that cruise itinerary here.
Now in Spain, we will be spending 5 weeks there checking it out – driving basically a “round” the country and skipping Madrid where we have traveled to previously. At the end, we will spend 5 days at a resort south of Barcelona and eventually sitting on our luggage to get it to close, prior to returning home in July! Let’s go travel!