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When in Rome... #55and10

One of the highlights of Siena was our terrace, advertised as the highest in the city (111 stairs from the front door to the terrace!)....

Back to Italy, this time by train and not our feet. 5 - cinque towns joined together by steep up and down trails (and rails) through...

Spent a couple of days chilling in Annecy, the "Venice" of the Alps. Drove to Nice on the Route Napoleon. No pictures...both hands were...

Because of the way we booked our accommodations we had the option of combining the last two days into one. One big day! 25 km in...

The highlight today was a sidetrail off of the TMB to la Croix de Fer (thanks for the inspiration, Shannon!). As we crossed from...

Remember this from yesterday? Well this is what it looked like this morning. We did three Mt Works up and then four Mt Works down (if you...

Today was an easier day by TMB standards. Started in the town of La Fouly, went through a couple other little Swiss towns and eventually...

Crossed from Italy into Switzerland today. We took an alternate, if slightly more harrowing, non TMB route for the Great views and the...

Cloudy and shorter hike today for our "rest" day. It still had its moments. #55and10

Guess what? It was windy and hot on the trail today. No, really. Really windy. Bruce: eating Cookie's dust again. Cookie: leaving Bruce...

Left before the sun rose over the mountains on another beautiful, sunny, hot day. That means the views are great but the hiking is...

Today the trail took us through the village of Les Contamines-Montjoie where we picked up cafe and lunch supplies. Some parts of the...

Off we go! What a perfect day to start a crazy adventure (okay, it was really hot, maybe not quite perfect). It started out in the ski...

Took the train (3 actually...that got less posh and slower as we went along) from Paris to Les Houches. Our room wasn't ready. Pas de...

A short walk toward the Seine brought us to Notre Dame and we spent a couple hours following Rick Steeves audio tuor of historic Paris....

122 Rue Mouffetard So many of our fun times were right in our neighbourhood...rue Moufferard in the Latin Quarter. Aperitif Hour in the...

It seemed like a long day before we even got on the plane. First of all an afternoon flight was a nice feature but then it was delayed by...

We're less than 24 hours away from our next #55and10 adventure. Our first time to Europe together and certainly the first time we've...