So, we survived our first day skiing in the Dolomites. We are still confused about the names of places. We do know we are staying in a town called La Villa, which is in a valley called Alta Badia, but pretty sure we went far far beyond this valley today. Because today was our best …
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Another anxious period waiting in the correct place (we hope) at the correct time (we think) for the CortinaExpress bus to take us from the Venice Airport up into the Alta Badia region to the village of La Villa. And, right on time. Whew! Then a 3 hour trip north. It looked a lot like …
Short post to say we made it to our hotel in La Villa. Interesting bus ride from the Venice airport. In 1 hour we were in the mountains. The next hour (and 9 tunnels later) on a two-lane highway and we were in Cortina d’Ampezzo. A half hour wait, and onto a road a lot …
Nice hotel! Annia Park Hotel. Near Venice airport. (mainland part of Venice, Venice Mestre). Hotel shuttle 5 euros / person. Nice room. Quiet. Great breakfast in the European style. Folks from Europe must be so disappointed at the “continental” breakfasts offered by most American economy hotels… We followed our usual practice for dealing with jet …
They changed the rules for Italy recently. Now you need a PCR test w/i 72 hours of entering, OR an antigen test w/i 24 hours of entry. So… math and planning…and anxiety. We land at 2pm, GMT+1. Burlington is GMT-5, 6 hour differential. So target for entry is 8am Tuesday, our time. If I do …
Preface: Kathy and I are doing another Semester at Sea voyage. It’s a study abroad program for undergraduate students. Instead of them living in one country for a semester, they visit a bunch of countries. Every day on the ship is classes. Every day in port is exploration. The program is run by the Institute …