D Lay – Sydney International Airport

A wise man once said ” the best thing about airport shops is you don’t have time to visit them.” (Well, actually, I said it, but more about that later.)

Home – maybe – YVR

We have to find gate D49. There’s a sign pointing down a dusty corridor ……All the flight announcements are for domestic flights to places like Yellow Moose Creek, but we’re hopeful that we are sort of close enough to find the right plane

Ze final leg – Zurich

They say there’s no free lunch. Well there aren’t any cheap ones either if you’re in Switzerland.

Across the Alps – Chur Switzerland

The train trip over the alps from Italy to Switzerland was supposed to be a high point of our trip – you got that didn’t you? “High” point?

Just being Varenna – Italy

It’s nice to stay somewhere that’s real. Varenna is real.

For whom the bell, and the drum tolls – Varenna Italy

Our new best friend Mirko is smiling and talking about our next destination. “Ahh – Varenna. It is lovely si? I wisha to go there myself some a day.”

“Venezia of course!” – Venice

Two things you don’t do in Venice – take a gondola ride, and poke someone in the eye. The first is way too expensive and the second, well, if you make a Venetian blind, they hang you (boom boom).

All at Sea – Mediterranean

We don’t usually go to art auctions, but we did today. It’s one of those “sea days” when the ship is sailing along and there is nothing to look at but the horizon and the occasional piece of wave tossed styrofoam.