I'm really not a chocolate person. That's not to say I don't like chocolate, I do. But chocolate people (you know who you are) have a totally different relationship with chocolate than I do. They not only love chocolate, they need it. They appreciate chocolate in a way I never will. Still, even Read more

Achtung, bitte. Hello from Frankfurt airport in Germany. We are passing through here on our way to Madrid, so this is a preseason post to kick things off and make sure my custom blogging systems are working OK. The plan is to spend a few days seeing Madrid with a day trip to the ancient town of Read more

OK, We are getting ready for yet another trip. This time to Spain. To the south. Granada, Seville, Cordoba, and then on to Portugal. We are super excited and hopefully you can come along with us via this blog. Read more

It's Wednesday morning and we've made it as far as London. We left our pups Winnie and Bean in the capable hands of daughter Jane and her boyfriend Alex. Here's a departure photo we snapped of the four of them: The LAX to Heathrow portion of the flight was really nice. We got upgraded to business Read more

Welcome to our travel blog that we've set up to record some of our adventures in Rome, Naples and Sicily. There probably won't be too much to say until we arrive in Italy (unless the plane ride is eventful, which I really hope is not the case!) I'll try to send out emails notifying of new posts. If Read more