Wow, was it a day! We started the morning with tickets to the Vatican Museums. If you’re planning to go, be sure to pre-book your tickets online. The line for pre-booked tickets moves much, much faster! We got in within … Continue reading →
Laundry in the morning. It’s been really hot here in Rome, and we’ve gone through clothes much faster than expected, so we needed to do wash some things. Fortunately, there’s a small launderette just a block down from the hotel. … Continue reading →
On Sunday morning, I was not at my best after not sleeping much the previous night. We had a pipe dream about going to Mass at St. Peter’s but our dream crashed into the Roman reality of huge crowds and … Continue reading →
Up and out early this morning to get to the Coliseum at 8:15. We actually got there at 8:30, but since that’s when it opened, it didn’t matter. Very, very impressive! The weight of history and sense of the long … Continue reading →
Fountain Statues in Piazza Navona On Day 2 of our stay, we started off by taking a tourist bus tour to see the major sites of Rome , which made sure we didn’t miss anything important. We drove past the … Continue reading →
We arrived in Rome at just after mid-day. Our son Joe, daughter-in-law, Steph, and 14-month-old grand-daughter Freya had arrived an hour or so before we did. They found the driver of the car I’d hired to take us to the … Continue reading →
This is the first of a series of posts I’m doing on a recent trip I took to Italy with my husband Jim, son Joe, daughter-in-law Steph, and grand-daughter, Freya. We visited Rome, Florence and Varenna (a town on Lake … Continue reading →
THE DETECTIVE’S DILEMMA, my romantic suspense novel from Kensington’s Lyrical Press, is a finalist in the Daphne duMaurier Award Contest, sponsored by Kiss of Death, RWA’s romantic suspense chapter. I will have a short story titled Wizard’s Vengeance in Frostgrave … Continue reading →
Leaving the family at home and heading for Richmond this weekend for Ravencon! I’ll have a pretty busy schedule there, but would love to talk to any of you who happen to be around! Friday: 5 pm (Panel) Genre Blending … Continue reading →
We have winners from the Authors in Bloom Spring Blog Hop: Joy Isley is the winner of my prize of a $10 Amazon gift certificate. Joy, if you didn’t receive my email, please contact me directly at Karen @ kmccullough. … Continue reading →