Category: Food
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Vilnius Day 2, 311223 New Year’s Eve
The day started at a leisurely pace with a lovely breakfast in the hotel. We had a good choice of cold cut meats, cheeses, salad, fruits, pastries and yogurts. There was also a menu if we wanted anything cooked to order, such as omelette or boiled eggs, so plenty to choose from. We went out…
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Vilnius Day 1, 301223
Today started at the very unsociable hour of 4am, to allow us to prepare for our flight from Stansted at 6:30am. Radisson Blu was a few minutes walk away from the terminal so it had been a great idea to book our overnight stay there. Even better that we’d booked a fast track route through…
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Italian Job 2, Day 15, Venice then home 070823
Monday morning started ok, with a bit of a lie-in. We had a great view of San Marco basin from our room, with San Georgio Maggiore church tower in the distance. It was a beautiful day. We had to check out of Hotel Paganelli by 11:00, so packed and left our bags downstairs. We weren’t…
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Italian Job 2, Day 14, Murano and Burano, 060823
We had a leisurely get up on Sunday. It was a beautiful sunny morning even though there had been overnight rain. We tried a restaurant nearby that did different breakfast options. The waiter got a bit grumpy with JC when he asked to change his coffee from a cappuccino to an americano as this wasn’t…
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Italian Job 2, Day 13, Venezia, 050823
We had a smooth checkout at the hotel on Saturday morning, and a taxi was ready within five minutes to take us to Stazione Porta Nueva. The 11:00am Trenitalia Frecciarossa train was taking us on a 75 minute journey to Venezia Santa Lucia. We had a complimentary lunch box given to us on the train…
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Italian Job 2, Day 12, Verona, 040823
Breakfast was good in the hotel on Friday morning. I would have gone back for seconds but an old guy had coughed into his hand and then pretty much touched every piece of serving cutlery…. I knew I wouldn’t starve. We had pre-booked La Casa Di Giulietta (The House of Juliet) for 9:45am, on Via…
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Italian Job 2, Day 11, Verona, 030823
We were up quite early this morning as the latest check out time was 10:00am. We also thought it might give us a head start with the traffic as we left Riva Del Garda. How wrong we were; we were no sooner leaving Riva before the traffic had built up and came to a virtual…
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Italian Job 2, Day 10, Lago Di Garda, 020823
After breakfast we had planned to go up the funicular in Riva Del Garda which takes you up to the Bastion. It gives brilliant views of the town from up there, as well as Lago Di Garda. Unfortunately, we got there to see a sign telling us that the funicular was temporarily closed. I think…
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Italian Job 2, Day 9, Riva del Garda, Lago Di Garda, 010823
It was another sunny day when we left Bergamo on Tuesday morning. We set off at 10am as the sat nav said it should take 2.5 hours to drive to our next destination. This was Riva del Garda, a town at the north end of Lago Di Garda. I knew there would be narrow roads…
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Italian Job, Day 8, Bergamo, 310723
It was a bit dull when we woke up on Monday morning but it soon brightened up by the time we went for breakfast on the outside terrace of the hotel. It was buffet style so we could choose from cold meats, cheeses, bread, yogurt, cereal, juices and hot beverages. We walked into the city…
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