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Our day of culture darhling!

It was an early early rise today so that we could be up, ready and at the Ufitzi gallery before 8am and beat the crowds. It was painful to be up so early after such a long night, but it was worth it let me tell you, just to beat the crowd. We were lucky really, we were about 20th in the line...

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Chris and Emily on July 28, 2009 from Florence, Italy

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

The last day and the last goodbyes

It was a lazy morning for Chris, Lidija and I today. We asked what time check out was last night and we had been told by the receptionist “umm, 11, 12pm..” and he shrugged. So, with this, we took him up on the 12pm offer (wouldn’t you?) We did rise in time for the breakfast buffet once more...

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Chris and Emily on July 27, 2009 from Imola, Italy

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Rome! Gellato and walking tours

Rome! The eternal city! As this is Chad's third time in Rome, he took on a bit of a tour guide role for the 5 days in Rome. Our time in Rome was Split between seeing all of the sites, and trying to plan for the next couple of weeks of our trip and catching up with the computer stuff we...

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ECRadventure on July 26, 2009 from Rome, Italy

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Lovely relaxing day with great friends!

We met at the resonible hour of 10am today in the hotel foyer. Chris, Lidija and I had all eaten suffient amounts at the hotel breakfast banquette, so were feeling rather full when picked up! It was a very nice way to start the day! Mattia and Mari then drove us to a nearby town where...

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Chris and Emily on July 26, 2009 from Imola, Italy

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

My penpals and I meet... after 14 years!

Oh what a lovely, wonderful, happy day! After 14 long years Chris and I finally got to meet two of my oldest and dearest pen pals! Mari, Lidija and I have been writing to one another since the age of about 15 and have continued to write to one another to this very day (though, more by email...

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Chris and Emily on July 25, 2009 from Imola, Italy

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Heureux qui contrairement à Ulysse...

Sept cratères colonisés par les palmiers, les lauriers, les bougainvilliers et les câpriers. C’est tout ce qui émerge de la mer, bleu cobalt. Mais dessous sommeille une chaîne culminant à plus de trois mille mètres, dont deux volcans – le Stromboli et le Vulcano – sont encore dangereusement...

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Anne & Sam on July 25, 2009 from Malfa, Italy

from the travel blog: Sicilia, tre colore a la bocca

The sistine chapel, fountains, coliseums and many many steps (both walked and sat on!)

I know I have said it before, but by geez it was HOT today. Seriously, seriously hot. Melting, sweating like a pig, dehydrating, feel like your going to pass out hot heat. We hate it. Now that we have our whine out of the way let us tell you of the things we did like today! We had...

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Chris and Emily on July 24, 2009 from Rome, Italy

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

Our first day in Roma

We got up early this morning on the train after a mostly sleepless night due to the really noisy train and no earplugs. After about an hour of watching the scenery out the window the train got into Milano right on time, good thing as we only had 25 minutes to get the next train and our last...

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Chris and Emily on July 23, 2009 from Rome, Italy

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Du soufre dans les bronches

Catane est notre étape suivante, la seconde plus grosse ville de Sicile avec 310 000 habitants, mais aussi la plus animée car très étudiante. Touristiquement parlant, Catane ne présente pas un intérêt majeur. Sa vieille ville baroque est bien moins charmante que Noto ou Syracuse. Construite en...

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Anne & Sam on July 23, 2009 from Catania, Italy

from the travel blog: Sicilia, tre colore a la bocca

Riomagiorre and Cinque Terre what a beautiful place!

Cinque Terre' means 'five lands', and Italy's famous Cinque Terre are five villages laid out on steep, inhospitable cliff faces and their surrounding vineyards which scale the steep mountainsides in hard-won terraces. The Cinque Terre stretch of coastline is a National Park, and a Protected...

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ECRadventure on July 21, 2009 from La Spezia, Italy

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