 | Strike
2007-11-09, Florence, Italy. By: kjpetez17 | | Well, I am all packed and ready to head to Frankfurt to stay with Irina for the weekend. Except there is one small problem, all of Italy is on a transportation strike today. Seriously, who does this? ... |
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 | Chianti
2007-11-18, Florence, Italy. By: embuck27 | | The weekend flew by! Thursday – class was pretty uneventful. We watched a movie in Mafia. It was pretty interesting, but weird. The whole concept of the mafia is just weird.
Anyway, Thursday ... |
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| Rain Rain
2007-11-15, Florence, Italy. By: embuck27 | | Yesterday was pouring rain. That wasn’t fun, especially since it was Aunt Missy and Sue’s last day here. We were planning on going to Siena, but the rain really puts a damper on things. We went to ... |
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| Venice and such ...
2007-11-13, Florence, Italy. By: embuck27 | | Well, I have a few days to catch up on!
Friday I woke up early and called a taxi to get to the airport. That actually worked out well. I was able to get a taxi and get to the airport 10 minutes... |
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| Oh Italy ...
2007-11-07, Florence, Italy. By: embuck27 | | Italy Italy Italy. Today is the first day that I’ve actually disliked the country.
Katie and I had Italian class, which is always boring. After that we decided to use the internet because I hav... |
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 | Back by the Sea
2007-09-22, Venice, Italy. By: elimatt | | One thing we've both found challenging this year is living away from the ocean - it has really made us appreciate what we've got at home. So we were excited about coming to Venice for a number of rea... |
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 | Florence
2007-09-21, Florence, Italy. By: elimatt | | Our next stop following on from Rome was a trip north into Tuscany to spend a couple of days exploring Florence. After what was a comparatively short rail journey (only two hours as I recall) we sort... |
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 | When in Rome ..................
2007-09-20, Rome, Italy. By: elimatt | | After a long day traveling (we started the day in La Spezia) we eventually arrived in Rome at about 8 in the evening. We could have gotten there earlier but we decided to take the scenic (scenic = no... |
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 | Back on Track in Pisa
2007-09-19, Pisa, Italy. By: elimatt | | Wishing we'd gone there in the first place rather than wasting a night, we boarded a train leaving La Spezia and headed toward Pisa.
This is where our trip returned to what we had expected...... vi... |
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 | From Paradise to Puddles
2007-09-18, La Spezia, Italy. By: elimatt | | The beauty of the flexibility of our trip does have a down side...... we have to make decisions about stop offs on the run....... and not all our decisions turn out to be good ones in hind sight. Thi... |
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| Pisa
2007-11-04, Pisa, Italy. By: kjpetez17 | | I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised with Pisa; it is a very underrated city.
When we got off the train we found a map and saw that you only needed to follow the main street and take a quick... |
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| Long Weekend
2007-11-02, Florence, Italy. By: kjpetez17 | | Long Weekend
After having a whole week off school, we are having a long weekend. (How lucky!) It’s going to be really hard going back to class! Yesterday was a national holiday, All Saint’s Day, so... |
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 | Palermo
2007-06-11, Palermo, Italy. By: smithy2006 | | Didn't see much of Palermo but went to the Catacombs where all the dead monks are kept... absolutly crazy... felt like i was on a set of Indiana Jones... everyone should see them... it will scare you ... |
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 | Etna Mission
2007-06-10, Etna, Italy. By: smithy2006 | | So we finally headed up Etna and bloody hell was it a mission... it was one of the scariest days of my life... decided to mission up solo as it was quiet expensive to get the cable cart etc.
We wer... |
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 | Another Etna Failer...
2007-06-09, Taormina, Italy. By: smithy2006 | | Once again we tried to get the bus to Etna and failed so headed to Taormina which was an amazing Bay... great sun and Sea! The Bay was set whith an island in the middle so the waves met back again in ... |
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| Halloween
2007-11-01, Florence, Italy. By: embuck27 | | November 1st, I can’t believe it! I’ll be home in 47 days. (I’m not the one with the countdown.) Last night was, obviously, Halloween. I haven’t dressed up since high school, so I was definitely n... |
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 | Beach Under Construction
2007-06-08, Catania, Italy. By: smithy2006 | | Aim today was to go to Etna... but missed the only bus, so headed to the Beach to catch some Sun, found the strangest place possible underneath the Train Station, the chalets and walkways were still u... |
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| Michael Buble!
2007-10-28, Florence, Italy. By: embuck27 | | Well, it’s Sunday morning and I’ve been working on some homework already. Welcome back Emily!
Last night was the Michael Buble concert. The people going were me, Lexi, Jackie, Britt, and Ana. Ka... |
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| Fall Break . . . Finally!
2007-10-19, Florence, Italy. By: embuck27 | | Well, it’s officially fall break now. I had a long week of midterms. Today was the worst day with my Mafia exam. I’m not enjoying that class. I feel like he makes the tests really challenging and ... |
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 | Fall Break - Part 2
2007-10-27, Venice, Italy. By: kjpetez17 | | First of all, Happy Birthday Colton! I can’t believe you are 13 today, wow!
Jake had to leave today. :( He was taking a train to Milan and then a flight to London and then another flight from Lond... |
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| Midterms are so over!
2007-10-18, Florence, Italy. By: kjpetez17 | | Midterms are OVER!!
Thank the lord! It feels so good to have all that studying done and a whole week off of school. Seriously though, who needs a vacation from Italy? I am very very excited to see ... |
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| Off they go..
2007-10-14, Florence, Italy. By: kjpetez17 | | Well, the two sisters just left Florence this morning (and left me with a cappuccino addiction!) I woke up at 6:30 this morning to walk over to their hotel and say goodbye, it was a miracle we got my ... |
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| oh nothing.
2007-10-13, Florence, Italy. By: embuck27 | | I feel like such a bum! Yesterday I spent the entire day doing homework. If I was back in Wisconsin going to school I would never feel guilty about staying in all day and doing homework, but it seem... |
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| Florence
2007-10-12, Florence, Italy. By: embuck27 | | I’m very crabby right now. I had journals written for basically every day this week and then I started to have battery problems with my computer and they’re all gone. That’ll teach me to back everyt... |
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 | shopping
2007-10-10, Florence, Italy. By: kjpetez17 | | Mom and Sherry really need to leave because I am spending all my money! (ahh!) Before they got here I didn’t really buy anything besides food and a few presents for people. Now though we are going int... |
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