Apr 11 2012
After 3 days of trade show, and 4 days of tightly planned touristing through Rome and Florence, I was more than ready to surrender the responsibility of planning to someone else. A friend had recommended Viaggi D’Ambra to us as a guide for the Tuscany area of Italy. I had initially looked at doing the …
Apr 07 2012
Day four of our trip to Italy dawned crisp and clear on a Monday. The shops and museums were closed so we had to be a bit more creative about our day. It began with a short walk to the Medici Chapel. Honestly, everything is a short walk in downtown Florence. The Chapel is the …
Apr 05 2012
The third day of our trip through Italy started with a quick jaunt to the Termini in Rome to get on a high-speed train to head to Florence. Zoom, zoom! The train is a truly civilized way to travel in Europe. Quiet, clean, smooth and a mere 90 minutes from Rome to Florence. Just time …
Mar 29 2012
I am going to begin my summary of our second day in Rome with two very critical pieces of advice. If there is a bathroom available, use it even if you do not think you need to. I spent much of the day in dire need as public restrooms are a concept lost on the …
Mar 24 2012
Day one in Rome is, unfortunately, shortened by the travel time to arrive. In true Restless Tech fashion it was a planes, trains and automobiles event. The automobile was the taxi in Frankfurt. 4AM came very early this morning. So early in fact that I must have turned my alarm off. I was awakened by …
Mar 23 2012
After a couple of quick days at the Festhalle in Frankfurt for Musikmesse, I am at the airport on the way to Rome. Musikmesse is the largest show I have ever been to with exhibits spanning 11 halls all surrounding a massive central plaza with bands and stages. As you can see below this woman …
Mar 12 2012
I am in the final throes of planning a trip for a couple of days in Italy with my wife. The weight of history and art in Italy is already threatening to overwhelm me as I look at museums and coliseums and mausoleums and other rhyming words! The other thing that is abundantly clear to …