Troy, Jack Johnson, & Milan
2006-03-13, Milan, Italy. By: jessicajv

I had a wonderful week!! Troy got here on the 5th and I spent the majority of the day picking him up from the airport. It was great to see him after like 7 weeks or so. He was really jetlagged so we d...

On Great Food, Wine, and Sleeping in the Sun
2006-03-08, Assisi, Italy. By: bolioboy

Wednesday we had a class trip to asissi. What I thought was going to be another routine mountain town, or at worst, anothre Perugia. Turned out to be a gorgeously lean town that showed that good ole ...

On Perugia
2006-02-29, Perugia, Italy. By: bolioboy

After a few uneventful days, wednesday we took an even more uneventful trip to perugia. An hour south of here, past lake Trasemieno. WE arrived about 11 am and started the tour with a 1 hour climb ap ...

On Rome Day 5
2006-02-25, Roma, Italy. By: bolioboy

Saturday I awoke as early as possible and caught a bus to St. Peters. I have to say, after a week of amazing buildings and art and architecture, I wasn’t impressed. The sculptures, art, and decorat...

On Rome day 4
2006-02-24, Roma, Italy. By: bolioboy

Since Thursday night was our last night in the hotel as a group, I woke up Friday morning a few minutes before check out and left my bags in storage at the hotel. And headed out on a day I had planned...

On Rome (day 3)
2006-02-23, Roma, Italy. By: bolioboy

Thursday the group walked about 10 miles north to the parco di musico, a 1 and a half hour walk to start the day! But well worth it I think, we saw Renzo Piano’s music park with the 3 conrcert pavilli...

Rome (day 2, part 2)
2006-02-22, Roma, Italy. By: bolioboy

(i just realised that over half of rome day 2 got cut off, so heres the rest!) ...None of michelangelos people or demons where wearing any clothes because, as a sculptor, he was always trying to show...

Bobli Gardens
2006-02-26, Florence, Italy. By: jennys

Another early morning in Florence Italy. Breakfast was about the same as the day before. Afterwards, we headed off to another museum and garden. The group I seemed to spend the entire trip with decide...

Ahh Florence...
2006-02-25, Florence, Italy. By: jennys

So Saturday in Florence started kind of early, I was up, ready, and eating breakfast by about 8:30am. It was pretty good. There was some off brand nutella at least, and you really can't beat a breakfa...

Ciao Bellas!
2006-03-03, Roma, Italy. By: kliebert

Just got back from a wonderful 6 days in Rome and Florence. It was more than I could have ever expected it to be. Obviously, we did all the touristy things. I was there with my roommate Kellie (fr...

Spring has sprung
2006-03-02, Rome, Italy. By: jessicajv

Spring has sprung, and with the constantly changing weather, I've gotten a horrible cold. It's really too bad, too, because the weather is gorgeous. I want to be out doing things, but I also want to g...

Florence here we come!!
2006-02-24, Lucca, Italy. By: JennyS

The beginning of a three day weekend for me! That's right, because I'm going to to Florence I get to skip class Friday morning, how crazy is that? Our bus left Cannes at about 8-8:30am, very early for...

Station Churches during Lent '06
2006-03-01, Rome, Italy. By: slaveofihs

I would encourage anyone who is reading this during the Lenten season of '06 to visit my seminary's website (pnac) to see and read more about the station churches. Below is some interesting informa...

On Rome (day two)
2006-02-22, Roma, Italy. By: bolioboy

Wednesday morning I grabbed a quick breakfast and two bottles of water and met the group inside the hotel at 8:15am. We walked briskly through the rain 2+ miles to the vatican museums, and made our ...

On Rome (day one)
2006-02-21, Roma, Italy. By: bolioboy

Tuesday morning we caught a three hour train to rome. The forecast said it was going to rain all week, and by the time we arrived, it was. We stood in the rain for twenty minutes till our teachers tr...

The Champagne of the Winter Olympics!
2006-02-27, Torino, Italy. By: jessicajv

"The Champagne of the Winter Olympics" = That's how they referred to the 4-man bobsledding... I think because it was the last event of the Olympics. Going to Torino for the Olympics was a really g...

Oh Florence, thanks for the Uplift!
2006-02-22, Florence, Italy. By: jeccojade

We are now in Florence, and yes, our itinerary might as well have not even been made, right? But I must admit that we girls are definitely rolling with the punches quite well, especially ME, because ...

traveling troubles
2006-02-18, Torino, Italy. By: JennyS

After a good four hours of sleep, the four of us woke up got ready, left our kind hosts a note of thanks and made our way to the open air market that we could see from the window. For breakfast we pur...

Olympics here we come!
2006-02-17, Torino, Italy. By: JennyS

So, I'm skipping ahead, because I want to tell people about my trip to the Olympic city. So last wed, a large group of students here decided that we were going to visit Torino (or Turin) for the we...

An AMAZING Birthday weekend!
2006-02-20, Venice, Italy. By: jessicajv

I can't even tell you how great my weekend was... but I'll try. We decided to have my birthday dinner with the roomies on Thursday night since I was leaving at 4:30 am on Friday for Venice. I was e...

My First Pub Crawl Experience
2006-02-19, Rome, Italy. By: jeccojade

My first Pub Crawl experience on Saturday night went a little something like this... We were at the Colosseum on Friday just meandering around when this guy, VIC, came up to me and handed me a Pub ...

From Rome to Naples
2006-02-20, Naples, Italy. By: jeccojade

Hello all! We are at an internet cafe here in Naples, Italy. We arrived last night from Rome and so far bought tour tickets to see Pompeii tomorrow morning and saw the Duomo where the Patron Saint G...

On Ravenna, Actual School Work, and Arezzo the Second Time Around:
2006-02-20, Ravenna, Italy. By: bolioboy

Ok, I know it’s been a week since I last uploaded a journal but hey, I have been very, very busy. For instance, yesterday I woke up at 11am. Then I went to bed at 8 pm. Ok people, I was awake a whole...

my visit to Florence
2006-02-09, Florence, Italy. By: jewell

I've finally developed my taste for coffee back. Funny how I had to come to Italy where all they drink is espresso to like coffee again. Of course, this is beside the point, I mean to write about my t...

When in Rome...
2006-02-17, Rome, Italy. By: jeccojade

So we are officially in Rome. For those who are actually keeping track of where we are supposed to be on our itinerary, you might notice that we skipped about 3 cities before getting here. That woul...