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                          All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata Synopsis - Aurora De La Torre, or Ora to her friends, knows moving back to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, a place that was once home and is now full of bittersweet memories of her late mother, isn’t going to be easy. Starting your whole life over probably isn’t supposed to be. But after breaking up with her longtime famous musician boyfriend, hiding out in a small town in the mountains might be the perfect remedy for a broken heart. And checking out her landlord who lives across the driveway just might cure it, too. Only Tobias Rhodes didn’t rent out the apartment to her, rather it was his teenage son, Amos. Fiercely protective of his family and distrusting of strangers, gruff and grumpy Rhodes initially keeps little miss sunshine Ora at a distance. But over days and weeks, long hikes and fireside chats, Aurora breaks down his walls and soon an unbreakable friendship blossoms into a once-in-a-lifetime love. Thoughts - I am v

Two Days in Venice

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Ah here we are and the end of our trip. From Amalfi , Rome ,  Florence  and then to  Cinque Terre  we end our trip in Venice. Originally we were going to head to Lake Como as well but we cut our trip short do to the procedure D was going to have (thankfully he didn't have to in the end). Every night before the day of check out M and I would go over our plan, book our train tickets etc. That night as we sat planning we changed things up a bit last minute. Instead of taking the train we decided to rent a car instead. We wanted to stop in Pisa on our way to Venice and the train timings were just not making sense to us. We would either have to wake up way too early, have too little time in Pisa or get to Venice too late.  We took a train from Riomaggiore to La Spezia and picked up are car from there.. and then we were off. Train travel was so easy and worry free it was a bit annoying in the beginning having to drive (M not me) and figuring out the roads etc but we got to Pisa in good t