Across the Ocean, Wide and Blue!

My wife Doreen and I feel that a good part of the fun in traveling is the research we do before we embark on a trip. That is one of the reasons that we were very pleased to find Travellerspoint on the web. Since this is our first trip to Europe (and Italy in particular) we're hoping to glean as much information about Rome, Florence, Siena and Genoa before we start our trip.

Just realized that we haven't given any background about us. Well, we are both in our sixties and retired; Doreen from nursing and I retired from almost forty years in the photography business. Traveling is one of our great joys - we are always interested in seeing new places, re-visiting favourtite places, and of course, our great passion for cruising always tempts us. We are Japanese-Canadians and live in the heart of the continent - Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ours is a great city of ethnic and cultural diversity - not so much a melting pot but a mosaic of peoples who are proud of their ethnicity and heritage and share their culture with one another. If you would like to hear more about our city, let us know!