by John Maturo | Feb 2, 2024 | TravelBlog
February 1-2, Chartres, John We landed at Charles De Gaulle, Paris on the first, picked up our leased car and headed for Chartres. On the way we stopped at IKEA to pick up a few kitchen items and pillows and a fleece blanket. Heidi sleeps a bit like the Princess and...
by John Maturo | Feb 7, 2024 | TravelBlog
We arrived in Arles just before sunset, checked into the Best Western and were keenly dissapointed in the quality of the lodging and that we were paying double due to some mystery of advanced booking as against the spot rate for the room. This is the first time a...
by John Maturo | Feb 7, 2024 | TravelBlog
On our way from Saint Emilion-Montagne to Arles we stopped for lunch in Carcassonne. My plan because it is about half-way to our evening destination, Arle, and it is the home of Cassoulet, and I planned on seeing if the local production is as good as Heidi’s. We...
by John Maturo | Feb 8, 2024 | TravelBlog
We did not stop in Genoa on our way to Pisa, and in fact we saw little of the town as we raced by at 60-80 mph along with trucks and impatient Italian sedans. This was the most challenging, hair raising, trully dangerous driving I have ever done. The autostrada is 2...
by John Maturo | Feb 8, 2024 | TravelBlog
This was another lunch stop to break up a long drive, 377 miles, from Arle to Pisa. Pietra Ligure is directly on the Mediteranean and clearly a mostly modern resort town. Almost all of the restaurants were seasonal and we were lucky to find a small bodega that had a...
