Photos from all over...

Sorry for the long delay between posts. We are now in Italy and enjoying the summer heat. Above you will find a few photos of the Cinque Terre, the leaning tower, and beautiful Florence. We loved our hike between the towns of the Cinque Terre. Each of the five towns had its own personality and it was great fun to visit each of them. I even managed to score a local recipe for lemon liquer from our landlady.

We miss French bread but are enjoying Italian cheese. Aaron still has a bottle of wine in his pack, though the nation of origin is continually changing.

We have also updated a few of the previous posts with photos...

Spain and Andorra

Our first stop in Spain was San Sebastin where the food was incredible. We are going to start up our own Tapas culture in Leavenworth when we get back!! From there we went south to Sevilla and Granada before heading up the eastern coast. Much of Spain seemed a bit dry for our tastes so we kept moving but in the northeast corner we came upon some mountains -- Andorra is its own country on the Pyrenne crest about the size of your average county and has incredible mountains and skiing. We couldn´t resist the mountains at our first stop and headed up. They have well-marked trails all over but most of the trip was above tree line anyways. We started in Pas de la Casa (on the French boarder) and managed to come down and down and down to another town (capital -- Andorra de la Vella) and will be moving back on the trains again tomorrow!! What a trip -- even had a good freeze overnight.