Italy in the Summer
Friday, March 16th, 2007Up until last week, I was sitting here in Santa Fe with sunny cold winter days and two month old snow in my yard, trying to plan a trip to Europe for this summer. I have a hard time switching between the seasons in my head. Last week the weather changed, we put away our winter coats and I got down to some serious summer planning. I always do my best planning when the trip is not too far off. I lock in the important vacation rentals six months or more before the trip, but I can never decide on the whole trip until closer to departure.
Steve and I have been dithering back and forth about our “year in England”. The positive part of this: we don’t buy anything new because “we are going to England”, so we keep our old car and furniture and save lots of money. The negative: we no longer plan Europe trips in advance because “we might be living in England”. Last week I officially decided that we will never get it together to move to England this spring (which starts next week!!) and I am going to plan a nice long summer trip to Europe.
I wrote about our two weeks in Switzerland in an earlier entry – Switzerland in July! Now it is time to think about the Italy portion.
I have never been to Italy in the summer, but have read so many trip reports and posts about summer trips that I feel like I have been. This July we will be at Villa Rosy from July 15 – 21. Corinna, who runs the San Potente vacation rentals, offered one week at Villa Rosy as a prize in our last Slow Travel Contest. Janet picked that prize and then asked Steve and I to join her, her husband Alan and some friends for their week.
Porto Santo Stefano, Tuscany
