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We were fortunate to have great weather in Venice both days. We had a very peaceful and romantic gondola ride, saw a demonstration of glass working by a Murano master workman and walked pretty much all over the city.

Pisa is what you’d expect. We took our “holding the leaning tower up” pictures. Very corny! Colleen climbed to the top of the tower while I chose to tour the Duomo.

What you’d expect.

One of the larger cities in beautiful Tuscany, Sienna was first settled by the Etruscans around 900 BC. We saw many young people in Sienna as it is home to an important university, especially well known for medicine. It is also known for it’s knife and armour craftsmanship, although these items are overpriced beyond belief. […]

Florence is a town with a great vibe! Much of this has to do with the huge student population, much of which is international. We checked out the city’s Duomo, the museum that houses the statue of David (which was quite unremarkable except for David) and took in a little nightlife with a group of […]

Saw these guys today. Tomorrow morning we are off to Sienna. I will add to these blogs and upload more photos to flickr when we stay at a hotel with internet again. Right now, we are at an internet cafe.

We took a bus to Naples in the morning. On the road between Rome and Naples, we passed a 1st century Roman road, Castle Gandolfo (Pope’s retreat), the second largest palace in Europe (after Versailles and in which scenes from Start Wars had been filmed) and a number of rock quarries.When we got to Naples, […]

Saw Vatican including St Peter’s Basilica, The Vatican museum and ending with the Sistine Chapel. It took 5.5 hours to do all this. Our guide was exceptionally knowledgable and we learned a lot about the progression of Christian Italian sculpture and painting through the ages as well as the broader events that brought about these […]

After doing some damage at the snack bar in the United red carpet lounge in Dulles airport, we took our direct flight to Rome. We watched 2 movies on the plane; Sweeney Todd (w/J. Depp) and Atonement (w/ K. Knightley). We both hated Sweeney Todd and strongly discourage anyone from seeing it (even if you […]

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