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We head back to the US in the morning. We wont have any more blog posts until we get adjusted back to US time and get settled in. Today we saw the Pantheon and went on a wine tasting tour. Both were fun. I've posted the pictures for them. Time for...
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We started out the 4 th of July thinking of the US and the most honored tradition: The Coney Island Hot Dog eating contest. The one US channel we have was highlighting the American hopeful and his goal of over throwing Kobayashi to reclaim the hot dog...
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This morning we visited the Coliseum. It was very convenient to get to – just a few subway stops from our hotel. You come out of the subway and the Coliseum is immediately across the street. We had reserved tickets, so we didn’t have to wait in line....
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This morning we started out in Florence. We made a visit to the Museum at the Duomo; it was nicely done, quiet and had a good flow to it. A highlight was an unfinished sculpture by Michelangelo, a Pieta – we’ll see another Pieta by Michelangelo when we...
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Today we took a walk to the Arno River and walked over it on the Ponte Vecchio. The Ponte Vecchio is lined on both sides with jewelry stores, with windows filled with gold, silver and jewels. It is a pedestrian only bridge, so it’s a nice place to walk...
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New words coined by Angie on this trip: Grawesome – When something is both gross and awesome at the same time. It was used first in Venice after visiting Saint Mark’s Church and the Tesoro room (treasures room). In this room there were body parts of saints...
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We had a great dinner tonight at Il Latini . We'd heard about it from several people and walked by it Friday night and saw there were a lot of people waiting outside (which we haven't seen anywhere else so far.) So we decided we had to try it...
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6/30/07 Hello. So I don’t know what else to add for today. Pisa was exactly what I expected: Get on train. Get off train. Taxi to leaning tower. Laugh at stupid people taking picture pretending to hold up the tower. Take Jeff’s picture pretending to hold...
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The website was done for a bit so this post is a day behind. We'll catch up once we hit Rome. In the last 24 hours 2 monumental things have happened: I ate pizza in Pisa, and I joined high class society as I now own a Rolex. To all those chumps in...
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Florence 6/29/07 Today we did the museum thing. Angie will tell you all about it. It was pretty interesting to actually see David and the famous paintings in the Uffizi, something you definitely have to do in Florence if you are here. My feet are pretty...
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Today we visited two famous museums: the Accademia (home of Michelangelo's David) and the Uffizi (home of, amongst other things, Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera.) We made reservations for both galleries a couple of months ago and were...
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Today we took the train from Venice to Florence. It was a pretty easy trip, the hardest part was riding the vapareto to the train station. That was really only difficult by the mass of people that got on and off at each stop. There was some yelling at...
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We bid farewell to Venice today and took a train to Florence. The Eurostar train we took was very comfortable and relaxing. We checked into our hotel in Florence, the Hotel Porta Rossa. There are several distinctive differences between our rooms in Venice...
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So we made an earlier start of it today and got in line early for St. Mark's Basilica. The Basilica opens at 9:30 (after a 6:45 mass) and we arrived about 9:15. There was already a decent sized line, but it looked manageable. Then a lady came along...
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So, another post for today (what I call day 2 and Jeff calls day 3; there's a little dispute on how to number what day we're on. I count full days and Jeff includes all travel days. From here on out I will just list posts by the date!) We're...