A day in Siena. This is the garden overlooking the city where we had lunch.

We picked our seven day home because it came with a pool. It's been getting really hot during the day and we wanted a place to cool off. Then we saw this beautiful Infinity Pool, overlooking the valley below.

How do you live life when there are no roads, no cars, and canals of water everywhere? Just like you do when there are roads, just in a different way. This is the recycle collector, picking up cardboard and paper.

Our last full day on the canel before we head south. We so enjoyed this view out the window of our apartment.

Day 3, it was Sunday and we watched a church teaching on line and then headed out for a walk. This is what we found just around the corner. It was so fun to hoot and holler, even though we didn't know a soul. It reminded us of our fun days with the Fox Island Yacht Club group. We miss them.

This is the famous Praying Hands Brdige on the eastern side of Venice. We toured three small islands in the Vinitsi area - Burano, Murano, and Torcello with 50 of our closest friends. Just kidding, it was a very pleasant day.

Because we left the mountains two days early, we decided to travel to the beach at Porto Tolle, Italy. Then it was time to head back up to Venice.

Welcome to Venice, a city built on the water, and the roadways made for boats.

Beach time again. It was perfect… warm, soft sand, long beach…. perfect!

We so wanted to hike in the Dolomites, a part of the chain of mountains in the Swiss Alps, accessed from the Italy side. As it turned out, we were only 14 miles from the Austrian border. Had the weather been better we considered walking across the border just to say we were in Austria.

We were 18 miles from the Austrian border and it looked like we had arrived in Switzerland. Every building, both in town and out of town looked like this. For our Washington friends, this made Leavenworth look like kids play.

The view from Pieve, Italy - sitting on the top of the world.

Clowns and Jokers - what could this possible mean?

First stop was Lake Como for a few days. The skys are a bit cloudy and rain with thunderstorms were expected. But it was still stunningly beautifu.. We love italy!

We traveled from Barcelona, Spain to Avignon, France by train where we rented a car. We then traveled in France from Avignon → Aix en Provance → Nice then to Monte Carlo, Monaco.