Flashback Friday — this is the first of a series of Friday posts about memorable events from recent travels. They are a collection of writings that didn’t quite get published while we were on the road. Our plans to visit Cinque Terre (‘Five Lands’) on the west coast of Italy Continue Reading
La Spezia
No good deed goes unpunished
We arrived in La Spezia on the north-west coast of Italy in a rain storm at 5:30 PM. A British couple that we’d met the night before had recommended a camping site in an industrial area near the port. As best they could figure, it was on land used by Continue Reading
Storm in Tuscany
We arrived in the city of La Spezia last evening. It’s on the west coast of Italy, a couple of hours north of Pisa in the region of Tuscany. Last night, this area was hit by a huge storm. Nine people are confirmed dead and six more are missing. Several Continue Reading