Enrico's Travel Blog

Tokyo, Japan   Last night was a long and restless night. Quite a bit of tossing and turning. Finally staying in bed was no longer an option so at 04:30 it was out of bed and into the bath. The hope was that a nice warm bath would help sleep return. Unfortunately, it didn’t work.   Breakfast is downstairs just off the lobby in the Marble Lounge, adjacent to the St. George’s Bar beginning at 06:00. We have roughly a three and a help hour tour of Tokyo today. The pre-departure a

Wednesday & Thursday, April 15th and 16th, 2026 Sonoma > San Francisco > Tokyo, Japan   This two-day transfer actually begins on Monday or Tuesday with packing and repacking for the trip. We have preordered a Blacklane car and driver to take us to the airport. We are on an airline we haven’t taken before, All Nippon Airways or ANA. ANA was founded in 1952, so it is as old as we are, as a Japanese Helicopter and Airplane Transports. It was renamed in 1957 when it merged with F

Saturday Torino, Italia   Good morning. Beginning to think about leaving and heading back to California to get ready for the Japan Cruise in April. This morning we went with Pietro, Serra and the girls to Torteria 40 for cappuccino and cornetto (brioche and croissant are not necessarily the samething, and cornetto is something different, here in Torino the proper term is cornetto not brioche, although everyone seems to understand it and no one has ever corrected me). Torteria