2026–Our Bi-annual Road Trip..

Well..Modico was charming as well. AND I didn’t love our B&B but then I looked at my notes are realized we only paid $100 to stay there. It was wonderful for that price!! Their church looked so simple from the outside And was so gorgeous inside. Tomorrow is the Valley…

We wanted to see the Baroque Church in Noto, so drove there for lunch. It was SO beautiful I literally cried. Then there was this bigger church, but I loved this Virgin Mary as well We are just spending one night in Modico–this may have been a mistake. We shall…

The Big Church here in Siracusa was built on a site that had a Temple to Athena. The architect intentionally incorporated some of the existing columns both inside and outside. . Some of my favorite pictures: I’m going to make a quilt of the floor pattern! Somehow! love, Barbara

We are in Sicily. And loving the food and churches and outside eating. The Pizza and cannoli, the Aperol Spritzs. The winding streets and balconies. It is beautiful and magical. BUT Siracusa is ALSO the birthplace of Archimedes. And he lived here in 200BC except when he went to Alexandria…

I gues it makes sense, we did live in Sardinia for 2 years. But coming back feels so comfortable. AND Catania has blossomed since we were here 2 years ago. The city “fathers” seem to have embraced tourism BIG TIME! Whole blocks of buildings have been cleaned…More streets are closed…

They say to train big animals you give them treats every time them move in the direction you want them to go. In Turkey they use chocolate. We were treated with a little box of chocolate when we got off of Turkish Airlines, every time we walked into our hotel…

It is really NOT fun to move Ola in windy weather. So when we meet Ola we buffer the arrival and departure dates. We arrive a couple of days early and have hotel reservations for a couple of days after they are “supposed” to drop us off. That gives them…

Sorry… after a day at the beach and pool I’m cheating…. I promise I will send resort pictures tomorrow. But here is a bit more of Istanbul! We think we are “so modern”. And then I walk into a museum and see these fabrics and tiles….. from 600AD. loveyou all…B

So the last two days we had no internet or cell service. The first night we were anchored in this cove. That is a ruin from the 400’s. We could just walk around it. That is Ola in the background. Then last night we were in this cove. We spent…

wrap up today and send it to each of you! Karen and Steve decided to go Mountain Biking, so after PE and a sea salt bath Max and I went into to town to see what groceries we could find. We docked the dinghy and walked over to Rosemary’s (where…