Yesterday evening Vicki and I were watching television and talking about the past five years of her job as marketing manager at the University of Nevada Press, which she resigned from last week. Yesterday was her last day and we talked about the ups and downs that job had given her as we ate a very mediocre formerly frozen pizza. Suddenly we both started laughing as we realized that in a week we'd be eating pizza in the eternal city of Rome. Forget her job, the economy, the election (hard to forget), and the general gloomy state of affairs of the world, we would soon be leaving for a month in Europe!
We've been planning this trip for months and needless to say, are very excited! Our itinerary is as follows:
Leave SFO, Tuesday, October 7 - to Rome.
Rome - 3 nights.
We've rented a nice little apartment near the Piazza Navona.
Chianti - Tuscany - Moncioni - 2 weeks.
We've rented a house in the country called Podere La Rota near a small town, Moncioni, in the Chianti region. Here's a link to info about our house:
http://www.summersleases.com/chianti.cfm
Here's a Google map with the location of Moncioni. If you zoom out, you'll see the close proximity to Florence and Siena:
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On October 24th we take an overnight train via Florence to Dijon where we pick up our rental car and head to our new destination, Chateau Les Roches.
France - Burgundy - Cote d'Or - 1 week
http://www.lesroches-burgundy.com/en/home
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After a week in the Burgundy region, it's off to Paris for three days, arriving home to San Francisco on the eve of election day, November 4th.
More to come ...
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