Rain, rain and more rain!

by | Sep 17, 2006 | Europe, Italy, Travel

After an overcast day yesterday which we used to go shopping for groceries in Grado it has started raining over night.Thankfully we thought to bring our sun sail, which now has mutated into a rain tarp. Without it, it would definitely be absolutely miserable. Well,...

Shopping and relaxation

by | Sep 16, 2006 | Europe, Italy, Travel

It’s been rather overcast today which was not necessarily a bad thing since we wanted to take Ayla with us to Grado for the shopping excursion without it being too hot.We found the market we were looking in for full of fresh local produce and other local...

Destination: Italy

by | Sep 15, 2006 | Europe, Italy, Travel

Our plans to leave at 11 am were mostly met today…but we didn’t come very close to making it to Salzburg by 1 pm. It seems that every slow moving vehicle which could have been on the road in front of us, was. We eventually arrived at the highway rest stop...

Bella Italia!!

by | Sep 15, 2006 | Europe, Italy, Travel

We’re on our way to Italy and the navi says we’ve only got 140 km to go. We started out at about 11 am this morning and intended to meet up with Steffen and Steffi at 1 pm at a rest stop outside of Salzburg, Austria. But what should have taken us 2 hours...

On the road again…

by | Sep 14, 2006 | Europe, Italy, Travel

Well, after not doing much traveling at all for a while, we will be traveling quite a bit in the coming week. We are taking a trip to Tuscany from Germany with the Defender, the dog and will be joined by two friends who are driving along in their VW bus.You might...

Our new camping haven

by | Jun 25, 2006 | Europe, Germany, Pets, The puppy years (1-2), Travel

We went camping again this weekend to prepare, train and just ready ourselves for our 3 week trip through Spain and Portugal. Since we intend to camp pretty much every night we’re traveling, we know that we need to get everything down to an exact science so...