I'd Forgotten about the Lion

Italy is large and contains lots of must-see cities. It's good that we are doing considerable pre-travel planning just to decide where to go and what to see. Of course, the result of all this homework is just conjecture at this point. We do enjoy being in constant preparation for the next place we may visit.

Naturally, Rome would be the first stop. It's too bad we have noted that the autumn charter flights are cheaper to every other city in Europe. Whether to go north or south first is an important question to answer. Deciding how far south to go is another.

Whether sooner or later, we will need to go far north as Venice is definitely on our list. We've already done a fair amount of reading on what to expect there. The iconic canals are already part of most people's experience though photographs. It even came to mind that Like a Virgin was also in one of the first music videos by Madonna I could remember. It would've been on a Sony Betamax tape sent to my company when I was working in Saudi Arabia.



In 1984, Madonna moved pretty much the same way she does in songs from this year's Hard Candy. However, nearly a quarter of a century ago, although not obvious in the grainy video, she had no need for wrinkle cream.