 | A Quick Jaunt Through Venice
2007-08-24, Venice, Italy. By: tjtunes | | My venture to Venice was fascinating, captivating and distressing. I had three hours to check out the floating city and that was plenty of time to get myself extremely lost wandering around trying to... |
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 | school time!
2007-09-03, Florence, Italy. By: kjpetez17 | | Entry # 7 – School, School, I’m off to school!
The welcome dinner last night was AMAZING! It was at a gorgeous villa where a count lived and the house has been in his family for 1600 years. There w... |
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 | I want a blue fish.
2007-08-27, Padova, Italy. By: Rachelg | | So to get a cheap (as in under 99 euros) bike you go to the statue of Garibaldi and tell the sketchy guys there "I want a *insert color here* fish".
And they bring you back a bike.
Where they ge... |
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| Good-bye Rome!
2007-08-04, Padova, Italy. By: Rachelg | | So, if it weren't for the kindness of total and utter strangers I would not have made it from Rome to Padova. First of all, I had to lug all of my luggage to the bus stop; a ten minute walk normally. ... |
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| Scrovegni Chapel
2007-09-03, Padova, Italy. By: Rachelg | | Painted around 1305 by Giotto, commissioned by Enrico degli Scrovegni. Here's what I found online (even though I'm sure this was what we were lectured on this morning-maybe if I had stayed awake I'd k... |
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| Sunday!
2007-09-02, Florence, Italy. By: kjpetez17 | | Wow, I have SO much to tell! We had a really exciting weekend!
On Friday night we went to Astor, a really cool café close to our house to go dancing. It was definitely a culture shock to dance wit... |
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 | It's the weekend!
2007-09-01, Florence, Italy. By: EmBuck27 | | Thursday night we had a really fun dinner! We had all bought different foods at the Marcato so we really combined everything we bought. We started with a tomato and mozzarella salad, and seriously I... |
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| Day 3!
2007-08-30, Florence, Italy. By: EmBuck27 | | They say that the third day is the hardest, and I have to agree! I still love it here, but I’m exhausted. I couldn’t fall asleep until 4:30 last night, but I set my alarm for 7 just so I can get on ... |
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| Jet lag - Yuck
2007-08-29, Florence, Italy. By: EmBuck27 | | I love Florence! The city is beautiful. Katie, Jackie, Ana, and I went out last night and met some Italian men – 2 who spoke English and one who didn’t, but it was still a lot of fun trying to commu... |
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 | Travel = LOTS of Waiting
2007-08-28, Florence, Italy. By: EmBuck27 | | Day 1 almost down! It’s about 8:00 and I am ready for bed. I said that 9/9:30 is the earliest that I can go to sleep, though. (I think I can make it!)
So, I left our of Ohare at 3:20 on the 27th, m... |
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| It's Friday :)
2007-08-31, Florence, Italy. By: kjpetez17 | | Friday- August 31, 2007
Hello!
I am alone right now and it is so wonderful! The girls went to grab a coffee and shop down the street and opted to stay and the apartment and chill by myself. It i... |
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| Orientation!
2007-08-30, Florence, Italy. By: kjpetez17 | | Well, last night Emily and I couldn’t fall asleep until 2 am again. So, I read the rest of my book, “For One More Day” and finally passed out until 9:30 a.m. Jackie woke me up and the three of us went... |
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| Firenze!
2007-08-28, Florence, Italy. By: kjpetez17 | | Today is the 2nd day in Italia! It has been so amazing so far. Yesterday we arrived at 11:20 in Florence after a long 12 hours of traveling. It was so funny, while were waiting at the gate in Chicago ... |
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 | Trip to home
2007-08-23, Bologna, Italy. By: maxhev51 | | So this past weekend was amazing. I went to the motherland (technically fatherland) (Italy). A small group of us took a bus Friday morning at O’dark hundred (6am) from Engelberg to Luzern. Then at ... |
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 | ROMA
2007-08-22, rome, Italy. By: sandypants | | older roman women are botoxed and facelifted and taned and trying to look like they are young.. not all but most..
and roman men are very vocal with their wistling and their smooth talk and their bee... |
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 | A Quick Note on Photos
2007-08-14, Florence, Italy. By: travelkris | | I've uploaded some photos! Just go to the photo link to see what I've been able to put up.
Due to some slight technical problems, I can't easily find the photos I really WANT to upload, so these w... |
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| Horse's Ass
2007-08-14, Siena, Italy. By: travelkris | | That's what I spent much of today looking at...along with the country side, that is. That's right. I finally got onto a horse, which for some reason was a goal of mine for this trip. It didn't happ... |
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 | Adventure Pants
2007-08-12, Florence, Italy. By: travelkris | | So, many have enquired: what are these 'adventure pants' of which I speak?
I realize I may have coined the term (but that seems utterly impossible....I'm not much of a coiner), but I simply mean th... |
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 | Europe: A Cure for Claustrophobia, a Weight-Loss Regime, or (cleverly) Both?
2007-08-13, Florence, Italy. By: travelkris | | The thing about old cathedrals, like the Duomo in Florence, for example, as well as castles (Ireland), train stations in mountains (Switzerland), large monuments built into the sky (say, the Arc de Tr... |
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 | ...That's Amore!
2007-07-31, Rome, Italy. By: lhovland | | Hey everyone, I hope you weren't too disappointed about the lack of pictures but I was not able to figure out how to get my camera to transfer pics after all. So today was pretty much just a relaxing... |
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| ...Like a Big Pizza Pie...
2007-07-30, Rome, Italy. By: lhovland | | Today was another HOT day in Rome with no air conditioning but it was still so much fun! We started out in Vatican City and went through St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museum but I didn't get t... |
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