Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Au Revoir France, Ciao Italy

The past 6 days Ben and I have been hopping from French city to French city, making our way south. We spent 2 days in Lyon, drooling over restaurant menus, two days in Avignon, drooling over the meal an old friend of the Heathman made us (Levi anyone?), and two days being spoiled by friends from Longview in Villefranche. We even got a home cooked meal. Basically the moral of the past 6 days is we ate well...very well. Plus, we had lots of fun seeing the cities. Each one was very unique. Lyon with its restaurants galore, Avignon with its history meshed with kids on dirtbikes riding the city, dressed better than Hollywood stars, and than Villefranche, the cutest most quaint town right on the coast. Ben and I hiked all around, finally enjoying some sunny weather. Now we are finally in Italy...Cinque Terra to be exact. We are staying 1km above Manarola, which truthfully feels like 15km, b-c it is straight uphill. Our apartment is wonderful: big, eco-friendly with a sweet kitchen and patio. We have no complaints. Our travel roots are now planted for 6 days where we will enjoy the paths, towns and lemoncello...or limocino in Italia. Ciao!

4 comments:

Jordan said...

Wow, it sounds so wonderful! I can just picture the beautiful people (aka you guys) sitting in the Italian sun, drinking wine and looking radiant! Love you and miss you--can't wait to see all your pictures when you get home :)

Anonymous said...

hi beautiful, so glad to hear you are planted for 6 days, i'm sure you are having a wonderful time!! I'm at gramma and gramps, they say hi and they love and miss you too. Sounds like a neat place, waiting to see pics!! Hi to Ben! Love mom xoxoxoxoxox

Anonymous said...

Wish I was there. I'm not drooling over corwins menu instead. Have fun and post more pictures if you can, want to see you guys and the sights
Love Kate

Jennifer Abel said...

hi and miss!