European Vacation Part I

Thanks to so many people: Kris and Gerhard, Nery's sister Liza, Nery's hard work, Catie and Dave for helping at the house, Mom and Dad for driving us to the airport, Donna for watching Belle, our many coworkers and family who have pitched in and helped; Nery and I are able to visit Kristan and Gerhard in Europe. We have been able to spend 3 wonderful days in Italy, we visited Saronno, Como, Milan and Verona. We have been in Nuremberg Germany for several days and have visited old Nuremberg and Furth. We have taken over 500 pictures and want to share a few of our pictures from our visit to Italy with our family and friends. Enjoy.

This one is for Bennett we passed this sign walking in Saronno

Saronno

There is a Cathedral every few blocks in Italy and Germany this one of two that we went through in Saronno

Nery, Kristan and Steve in beautiful Saronno

 Our favorite bakery in Saronno their pizza rolls and cannolis were out of this world

 My first ever cannoli I had always heard they are wonderful, well they are!!!

Kristan in Saronno

Train station in Saronno
Como

At Lake Como in Como Italy home of the original Bellagio

Nery and Kris at Lake Como

Steve at Lake Como

 Milano

Steve and Nery at Castello Sforzesco in Milano "Milan"

Fountain in front of the Castle

This street artist was carving vegetables into beautiful works of art

Kristan and Nery at a sidewalk cafe in Milan

 

Nery and Steve in front of the Cathedral in Milan

We stopped at a rest stop on our way to Verona and had a picnic of wonderful pizza and desserts from our favorite bakery in Saronna

Verona

Gateway to Verona, home of Romeo and Juliet

Steve and Nery outside the Arena in Verona

Kristan and Gerhard outside the Arena in Verona

Looking down one of the many beautiful streets of Verona

There were vineyards and orchards along the road as we drove out of Italy and toward the Austrian Alps