Europe 2017 - Italie et Grèce

Nous avons trouvé du Wifi à l'aeroport de Rome en attendant notre vol vers Athen. Une semaine d'antiquité et d'art contemporain! We found a Wifi connection at the Rome airport while waiting for our flight to Athens. A week of antiquity and contemporary art! Update... Tuesday May 9 We returned to the Centale Montemartini... a real treat for me with its huge machines and industrial past.  After we took the subway to Barberini and did a walking tour of sculptures by Bernini and then the Plaza Republica area including a toilet stop at a McDo. We then walked the rest of the way home. Wednesday May 10 To the local bookstore café to verify our flight for the next morning via Wifi, then the tramway to the Coloseum which we visited, very impressive considering that it is almost 2000 years old.  We than wandered around the area that is the Forum and Paletine which are an incredible array of ruins on top of ruins with buildings built on top...

Nous avons trouves un café internet, donc un tout petit mise-à-jour. Hier le colissé et la fontaine de trevé et un premenade dans le centre ville. Aujourd'hui le Vatican, promenade le long du Tibre etc. Today we found an internet cafe so a brief update. Yesterday the coliseum, treve fountain and the downtown. Today the Vatican and walk along the Tibur etc. Update... (Sorry for the black and white pictures, the camera was incorrectly set for awhile before I noticed it.) Sun May 7 The tramway that passes nearby brought us to the Coloseum. It happened to be the day that entry was free, so we decided not to wait the hours necessary and walked through the surrounding area which is a foundation of Roman ruins, with structures from more recent eras built over them in places... monumental architecture from all historic periods.  The quantity of ancient structures is mind-blowing. Not just here, but everywhere in the city there are ruins or buildings of histo...

Nous sommes rendus á Rome et pas d'internet dans notre chez nous. Voici le lien sur Airbnb. http://abnb.me/EVmg/M4ypy99XVC Je vais faire des notes pour le blogue mais je ne peux pas les télécharger. :( Update... Thur May 4 We finally woke up at 12h after making up for the sleep missed during our flight. Our apartment is great, clean, fully equipped and in a convenient but not too central location. We spent the afternoon walking a loop as described by Suzanne below. We returned home for supper than went to the train station and area and another loop through the neighbourhood near the station that led us to the Tre Archi (3 arches) bridge near home. After some reading, correspondence and updating this blog, we took one last short walk and prepared for bed... Suzanne; Nous sommes dans le cartier Cannaregio à Venise. Un quartier à découvrir. Pour les amateurs d'art, il s'agit du quartier de l'artiste de la Renaissance Le Tintoret. Pour un pe...

J'ai des problèmes de connexion avec mon ordi donc ce mise-à-jour est via iPhone. Le lien vers notre Aibnb http://abnb.me/EVmg/DBzXe0vwRC The link to our Airbnb appartment. I am doing this blog update on my iPhone because of computer connection problems. Update... The computer connection was never resolved so the notes and pictures from the voyage are being added now that we are home. I apologize that the blog is almost exclusively in English, we didn't have the time to translate during the trip and it is really my project not Suzanne's. All comments are mine unless otherwise mentioned. Tuesday May 2 Mostly uneventful trip to the airport and caught our flight. It's been awhile since I flew on a modern long-flight airliner so I was impressed by the entertainment center. A private screen in each seat back with free movies, TV shows and live 3D flight info. Wed May 3 What time is it again? Arrived at London Heathrow at 9am (or 4am for us). Af...

Nous partons demain le 2 mai 2017, on est donc dans les derniers détails. Nous espérons échanger la pluie et le froid qui règnent actuellement à Montréal pour des pays plus chauds et ensoleillés. Notre itinéraire est: British Airways de Montréal à Venise via Londres. Quelques jours à Venise et on part en train pour Rome. Après presque une semaine à Rome on prend un vol Alitalia pour Athènes et une visite d'une semaine. Après notre vol de retour Athènes - Rome , nous partons par train pour Padoue via Bologna. Notre dernière semaine sera à Padoue avec des visites à Venise et on retourne à Montréal le 24 mai. ---- We leave tomorrow, May 2, 2017, so we are in the final details. We hope to exchange the rain and the cold here in Montreal for warmer and sunnier climes. Our itinerary is: British Airways from Montreal to Venice via London. A few days in Venice then we leave for Rome by train. After most of a week in Rome we have an Alitalia flight for Athens where we will sta...