Less than a week to go
This is the view I expect to be seeing everyday over the next 4 weeks; from Villa Chianti in Tuscany. I'm headed there in 6 days for a 5-week trip, with the last week to be spent in Florence. After the 10 days that I spent in Italy last year, I'm really ready for this trip.
I leave on Friday from San Francisco airport and fly to Frankfurt. After just an hour in the Frankfurt airport I fly then to Pisa, where I will meet up with my friend Marilyn at which point, in our rented car, we will head to the villa to start our time.
Villa Chianti is right near the town of Tavernelle in Tuscany, about half-way between Florence and Siena.
The reason for this trip is Marilyn's birthday. She is turning 70 and wants to do so in style. So she has rented this villa for a month and has invited friends and family to come spend a week with her. Allen & I are there the whole time to be the desk clerks/van drivers/concierges/etc. We're managing the guests for her, one could say.
I need the break and am really looking forward to getting away. It's been a long time, it seems, since I've had a day off and I'm ready. I've never been away for this long, unless you count my year in Australia. But that was more like living there than traveling there. None-the-less, 5 weeks is a good amount of time. I'm sure it will practically fly by.
Thanks for reading my blog. I hope, depending on access to the internet in the town near the villa, to enter once or twice a week. Who knows--this could be the last entry. I hope not though.
posted by Gerry at
3:29 PM
5 Comments:
make sure you take lots of pictures. probably all i will see of italy.
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Anonymous, at 5:17 AM
What a wonderful celebration! I have told a few of my friends who are reaching milestone birthdays about Marilyn's plans. I think she might start a trend here in Virginia. Maybe I can even get one of them to take Bill and I on as the guest managers! I'll be checking in to see how it is working out - a good managers does her research!.
Gerry, will you have any guests coming through that are birders? I would love the hear what they are seeing over there.
But what I really want to know is who is this "Allen the older" fellow that made the previous entry? Older then who? Could this be Allen's dad?
Nancy
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Anonymous, at 7:50 AM
Nancy, that is probably my other Uncle, aka Gerry's brother, Allen (though if that were the case it should say 'much older', so maybe there is another Allen?).
-Jonathon the Much Younger than his Uncles
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Anonymous, at 9:57 AM
Jonathon, well howdy! It has been a long time since I heard much about most of Gerry's family. The last time we talked about you, you were still in..... (I'm sure you are tired of those stories by now). Your old Uncle Gerry and I went to Virginia Tech together. Yes, I am prove that he is actually edua-ma-kated. I have met your old old Uncle Allen on a few rare occasions. And I am glad to say that I am still not as old as either of them!
Gerry, not that this whole Italy thing isn't interesting but it is nice to hear from your family. I was glad to hear that you and Allen are both there safe and ready to manage. Are you picking up e-mails while you are there or do you prefer to blog? It sounded like your computer time was very limited.
- Nancy the Not Near as Old as Them
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Anonymous, at 11:28 AM
Gerry doesn't talk about us much, in fact he's told most people that his entire family died in a freak lemming accident while picnicing on a beach at the base of a tall cliff. But we are still around! And now that he's provided a stage, we can go back to embarassing him once again.
Gerry, sorry to let the cat out of the bag, hope you're having fun in Italy!
xoxo Jonathon
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Anonymous, at 9:01 AM
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