"...Field Trip..." Post 3

Today we fly from Florence to Frankfurt, where our exchange daughter Claudia will pick us up for a couple days visiting her and her family in Trier, which is near the Luxembourg border.  It's been 2 years since we've seen her and I'm always excited yet saddened to see how much her beautiful daughters have grown!  They speak fluent English as well as German, good for communicating.  The first time they visited us the girls didn't speak English.  I remember a 'conversation' with Eleanor, her younger, who was telling me something quite definitively with a facial expression connoting how frustrated she was with this stupid American woman who didn't understand her.  It's much better now.

 I promised a photographic tour of where we're staying in Cuscina and that's the substance of this post.
Ceiling in the main room.  Dan-o says that
architecturally it is called a groined vault ceiling.

Breakfast and crossword puzzles are a staple


The pool where the children spent over 12 hours yesterday,
hence most of them are still asleep at 11 am today

Typical bathroom in the house

The house can be divided into 3 separate rentals.
This is the main area of the rental on the second floor
Jeanie and Bill have rented the entire home.

Ceiling in the main area of the second floor

More ceiling

Kitchen area of the second floor

Main area of the third floor

Kitchen on the third floor


Yard with grill
Exterior of the home, entrance into the main floor

Mountains in the distance

More yard

Interior of gate into the property

You can barely see the sunflower fields beyond the gate

The house

The house

The house was built in 1831.

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