We're in Italy with all of our dogs and luggage and, after a few days of rest, most of our senses! We had a couple of minor hiccups in our trip (rerouted because plane from Paris to Pisa was too small for the dog crates; two pieces of lost luggage), but overall we can't complain. The dogs made the trip without any problems; no one ever bothered to look at the paperwork we had painstakingly prepared to get them through customs!
We spent our first night in a hotel in Pisa, southeast of La Spezia, and then Sunday moved into our new apartment in Lerici. Our landlords, Bruno and Nelly, are wonderful people and thankfully speak English since our Italian is crude, at best. Lerici is a picturesque seaside village that draws tons of tourists. We happen to live on one of the busiest streets in town, which prompted my first realization about Europe: a village of 1,000 people can be as densely populated and bustling as a major city in the U.S. I could be sitting in Manhattan right now for all of the noise outside our apartment!! We will look for permanent housing that is piu tranquillo, but for now this is a convenient place for us to be: 3.5 miles to Jim's work and a 2-minute walk to groceries, real estate agencies, and the waterfront.
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