Legally Blonde's Proceedings

Wednesday, December 15th, we left the hotel very early because we were headed back to Charles de Gaulle airport to fly to Italy.  After the LONG drive into the city, I felt like we had to leave plenty of time to get to the airport and of course we got there in record time.  I was worried about all the requirements to fly to Italy, but I had all our paperwork in order and everything went smoothly.  We had plenty of time to have one last Pain au chocolat! The flight was probably not even a quarter full, but they had us all crammed together in the middle of the plane instead of letting us spread out.  Our flight left at 9:10 and we arrived in Milan at 10:40.   We took a taxi to our hotel (more on that at the end of this post) and were able to get into our room early.  We then walked down to the Metro stop and bought day passes on the Metro and took it to the Duomo stop.  We walked around for a few minutes and then decided to find some lunch.  I had d...

The last full day of my vacation was on January 5th.   I spent a few hours in Venice before my 10:50 train out of Venezia San Lucia to Milano Centrale.  I went to St. Mark's Square first thing just to take in the sights of Venice one last time without crowds... A classic Venice scene... The day before I made sure I could find the taxi dock where I arrived, and I even walked down there to make sure taxis were available.  The day before there were 4 or 5 docked there.   That morning when I needed one, there were none.  Of course! I went to the end of the dock and tried to flag down some that I saw driving by.  I guess they don't do that?  Because they all looked at me like I was deranged.   I yelled over at some Gondoliers and asked how to get a taxi.  They suggested I walk to San Mark's Square dock.  I could do that, but I had luggage, and the streets are not great for rolling luggage, plus you factor in all the ...