I’m on my first leg of a very long flight route ending up in Heidelberg, Germany. My first leg is from Toronto to Iceland where I have an hour to switch planes to Amsterdam. This will be my first trip on Wow Airlines. Wow is a budget airline out of Iceland that isn’t so budget if you don’t read the fine print and end up having to pay for …
It was foggy, cold and rainy. Graham met us at the townhouse and we literally headed for the hills. Heiligenberg to be exact, which means holy mountain. Apparently this mountain was used a lot by pagans in the past. Heidelberg is in a valley surrounded by high hills. We drove up and up through heavy mist to the top and then we got out to walk. The fog …
Early morning saw us leaving Catania. The streets were almost empty except for the cars parked everywhere to the point that a car could barely squeeze through a two way street. We flew into Frankfurt on RyanAir. It took quite a while to get our bags. It was grey, cool and drizzly outside. The German autobahns have no speed limit. John was doing 140 Km per hour in the …
I pulled a pomegranate from the tree, peeled it for the road and drank a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice from our tree. We said goodbye to our friends at the villa and began our 4.5 hour drive to Catania. My leg was still quite sore but at least not throbbing like the day before. On our way to Catania we planned to stop at the Villa Romana …