Mestre, Italy

From Postogna we drove to Ljubljana, dropped our rental car, then took our four hour Flixbus ride to Mestre, and finished by walking to the Hotel Vienna nearby. Our first assigned room was unsatisfactory so we persuaded the clerk to give us a different room. We once again had a quite nice dinner at the Bar Ristorante Piccolo including spaghetti then gelato for dessert. The following morning we dodged a national transportation strike by getting to the airport shuttle bus early then took the short flight to London, then a few hours later, the much longer flight to Seattle with gorgeous views of the glaciers on the east coast of Greenland. The following day, after a night at the Sleep Inn Seatac, we took the Wenatchee Valley Shuttle back to Wenatchee via Stevens Pass, because Blewett Pass (Highway 97) was closed due to the Labor Mountain Wildfire, and were picked up for the short ride home by our friend, Jay.Read more