 | Weekends
2006-09-22, Milan, Italy. By: Lorryn | | Weekends were free!! My first weekend I spent in Florence by myself. What an adventure! It was so amazing, I had forgotten how much I loved Florence. Well, I never really forgot, but it was nice to be... |
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 | Dinners
2006-09-15, Vicenza, Italy. By: Lorryn | | We had several dinners out as a group each week. Janet would invite Italians to join us. We went to some great places in Vicenza as well as some out of town, like the agriturismo and our last lunch to... |
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| When In Italy...
2006-09-15, Vicenza, Italy. By: Lorryn | | When we weren't in class, we got to do a lot fun explorations. One day we went to a cheese factory and a salami factory. It was really fun and we got to learn how dedicated the Italians are to their j... |
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| Class
2006-09-12, Vicenza, Italy. By: Lorryn | | We have class almost everyday in a small classroom in the same building as our residence. It's very convenient, we don't have to wake up so early!! We have a paneterria a block from our residence so m... |
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 | Venice
2006-09-06, Venice, Italy. By: Lorryn | | Today we took a tour of Venice, it's about an hour by train from Vicenza. It was VERY hot out today! We saw a Formula one race car driver and crazy papparrazzi in the Piazza San Marco, that was insane... |
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 | Caio Vicenza!
2006-09-04, Vicenza, Italy. By: Lorryn | | I finally made it to Vicenza, a little late, a little stinky and a lot tired. My 3 day journey to get here was well worth it. I have 2 roommates and we share a two bedroom apt. It has a television, a ... |
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 | Mission to Lucca
2006-10-23, lucca, Italy. By: smithy2006 | | Decided to go on mission to Lucca as had heard good things about it!
The place is beautiful, the city still sits completely inside it's original walls! amazing to see and walk around! Had not booked ... |
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 | Hangover of the Century!
2006-10-22, firenze, Italy. By: smithy2006 | | Well after the skin full at Astor, i woke up with a pretty stinging hangover, wasn't feeling to bad until my mum adviced to take a few aspirin to sort me out... there must have been something in the a... |
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 | Leaning Tower...
2006-10-30, Pisa, Italy. By: smithy2006 | | So i set off for Pisa to check out the leaning tower with two fellow English Girls who had spent a week living (drinking) in Astor, The town itself is quite small, very beautiful, like most towns it h... |
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 | Group trip to Toscana
2006-08-16, Tuscany, Italy. By: tonita | | This weekend the entire ECCO program was taken to various parts of Tuscany as our group trip. Which basically means we spent half our time on the bus and the other half on guided tours. But there was ... |
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 | Stain Devil is the Daddy!!
2006-10-21, Firenze, Italy. By: smithy2006 | | Surfaced a little early for my liking on the Saturday morning esp. as it was raining but i guess that's what parents do, at what age do you start doing that? yep when your working Monday to Friday you... |
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 | Pompeii!
2006-10-12, Rome, Italy. By: mariannas | | So I realize that my entry yesterday was rather undescriptive. here comes another undescriptive entry because I dont have much time left on my account...but I went to Pompeii today and it was AMAZING!... |
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 | The Parents are in Town!
2006-10-20, Firenze, Italy. By: smithy2006 | | So the weekend starts with a short trip to Pisa to fetch the folks from the airport... after limited sleep after working the night prior was feeling knackered so sacked off seeing the leaning tower...... |
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| Vatican and St. Peter's
2006-10-12, Rome, Italy. By: mariannas | | Well, the subject line pretty much says it all. Today we went to the Vatican, where we ran into multiple CYAers (4 in all). It was long, but good. Then we went to St. Peter's, which was also long, but... |
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 | Yes I've stepped out of Florence
2006-10-08, Fiesole, Italy. By: smithy2006 | | Just thought that i'd report that travelling is still going on, if you are ever in Florence you have to go up the mountains to Fiesole because it has the most amazing view of Florence! Manufico! make ... |
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| bye bye firenze, hello rome!
2006-10-12, Rome, Italy. By: mariannas | | So the last few days in Florence have been absolutely wonderful. I really love that city and am honestly wishing I had studied there and not in athens. Florence is totally my kind of city, with my kin... |
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| Back to the Home Land
2006-08-16, Cantalupo nel Sannio, Italy. By: tonita | | This weekend Elissa and I made the ultimate journey down to Cantalupo nel Sannio, the town where my great-grandparents were from. Rock on. It was such a bizarre weekend. Most things shouldn't have wor... |
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| long time no update
2006-10-12, Florence, Italy. By: mariannas | | So basically the last couple of weeks have been hellishly busy. Lets see if I can summarize...
my friends and I went to Hooters sort of by accident one night. one of the girls there is basically am... |
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 | Family Villa Vacation (Part Due)
2006-05-20, Rome, Italy. By: mala | | I hate writing these things at home, after the fact. The whole point is to keep in touch while on the road. However, in some cases (such as this one) I like to reflect with the clarity of hindsight on... |
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| The Life of Smythe
2006-10-15, Firenze, Italy. By: smithy2006 | | A small review of Smythers life at the moment as i haven't written anything in the diary for a while...
In a nutshell everything is top banana, i work 4 or 5 days a week, while at work i eat as muc... |
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 | Greetings
2006-10-14, Florence, Italy. By: jessdana | | Hi everybody,
This is my first attempt at sending an email through this site. We're in Florence, did some shopping and lots of walking and touring today. Going for a nice dinner then tomorrow to th... |
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 | Milan: Friendships
2006-08-17, Milan, Italy. By: ch_travels | | Milan was, as they say (whoever they are), "Short and sweet." I was there briefly, only two nights (which does at times seem like a long time in my life) and I stayed with Flo, a friend of mine. We ... |
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| Where the cheese comes from.
2006-08-16, Parma, Italy. By: tonita | | Friday four other girls and I went on over to Parma. As in Parm(a)esan cheese. Or Parmigiano-Reggiano as it is called over here. Anyway, it was delicious. The town itself was really cute. We mostly wa... |
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| Working innit!
2006-10-04, Firenze, Italy. By: smithy2006 | | So i-ve finally settled into florence, got my flat and i-ve got a job! The job is pretty hardcore quiet a few hours worked, actually done 8 nights on the trot but it-s all fun, get to practise my ital... |
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| Tom Cruise eat your heart out!
2006-10-03, Firenze, Italy. By: smithy2006 | | Quick message to say that an update will be coming soon... a lot to report on the new job but as i have worked the last 8 nights on the trot just haven't had time! will have full report on Smithy's fi... |
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