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To Pisa We Go, Pisa, Italy travel blog

To Pisa We Go

A travel blog entry by jackie_n_james

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Our train didn't leave Rome till just after noon so we got to sleep in and took our time eating breakfast and checking out. After an uneventful and boring ride to Pisa we arrived around 4pm and found our hostel really easily. We were hit with a very ...

What!? The Tower Isn`t Made of Pizza? Those Liars!, Pisa, Italy travel blog

What!? The Tower Isn`t Made of Pizza? Those Liars!

A travel blog entry by jackie_n_james

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After a horrible sleep we got up a little tired in the morning. The first half of the night was swelteringly hot and so we had to keep the windows open but this just let the mosquitoes in so I (Jackie) woke up with a ton of bites, although once again ...

A Day in Florence With Michelangelo's David, Florence, Italy travel blog

A Day in Florence With Michelangelo's David

A travel blog entry by jackie_n_james

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Since Florence was only a little over an hour by train we decided to go and see Michelangelo's David and lots of his other sculptures. Thankfully we arrived at the museum around 11:00am because the line tripled its size at 12:00pm, we did have to wait an ...

James is No Longer Allowed to Book Things!, Rome, Italy travel blog

James is No Longer Allowed to Book Things!

A travel blog entry by jackie_n_james

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We had until 3:30pm before we had to be on the train to Rome so we decided to do our favourite thing in Venice and just wander. This time we took a left after crossing the Rialto bridge instead of a right like the previous days. After some more narrow ...

Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon and More, Rome, Italy travel blog

Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon and More

A travel blog entry by jackie_n_james

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We walked to our new hotel in the morning and cooled down in the A/C  a bit before setting out and exploring  some of the sights that were in the area. We first went back to the train station though thinking we were going to purchase a Rome ...

Canals and Bridges, Venice, Italy travel blog

Canals and Bridges

A travel blog entry by jackie_n_james

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We woke up early to get ready to head of to Venice. My cousin Sylvia and her husband Dieter and their kids were also leaving for their vacation to Canada today to see family, so they get to see my (James') niece and everyone at home before we do, we are ...

On our way to Florence, Florence, Italy travel blog

On our way to Florence

A travel blog entry by jeroenandlinda

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We tried to make an early start as today we have to get ourselves to Italia. As I don't have a passport at this time we cannot use airplanes. My passport is still with the visa agency in Holland. So we travel by train today. Our friends went out of their ...

The Italian Job, Milan, Italy travel blog

The Italian Job

A travel blog entry by sutiramisu

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... we felt justified to eat our hearts out.  The food was... well, how can one put it?  Did you know DeNiro went to Italy to gain the 60 extra pounds required to play Jake La Motta in Raging Bull?   He knew exactly where to go and how to ...

Rome, ruins and history, Rome, Italy travel blog

Rome, ruins and history

A travel blog entry by jeroenandlinda

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We wake up in the center of the universe. At least that is what the Romans thought this city was about 2000 years ago. Although the hotel looked very comfortable at first, we found during the night that our queen size bed was actually two singles which ...

A day in Perugia, Perugia, Italy travel blog

A day in Perugia

A travel blog entry by jeroenandlinda

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Today we explore the buzzling center of Perugia. The city center is, as I mentioned before, not too big, and on top of a hill. The town is a student town as there are a couple of universities located here. First we have our breakfast at the hotel. Thank ...

Milan for a night..., Milan, Italy travel blog

Milan for a night...

A travel blog entry by madman96

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... night out in Milan.  A quick drive down to the Milan airport and we pick up Aaron Breeden before heading downtown to watch the Italy - France Euro 2008 game in the Duomo square in Milan.  Of all the games I've seen so far in this tournament, ...

Lake Como Weirdness, Lake Como, Italy travel blog

Lake Como Weirdness

A travel blog entry by peteandmandy

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... ....yep, snow, again, in the middle of summer. What the!!! Within an hour things had changed dramatically. Our last obstacle before Italy was a tunnel, all 17km's of it. Driving in a 17 km tunnel is not my idea of fun. Boring, claustrophobic, carbon ...

Florence and Tuscany, Florence, Italy travel blog

Florence and Tuscany

A travel blog entry by peteandmandy

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3rd-5th August Its Mandy hear, I'm giving Pete a rest as we have a few blogs to get through. We planned to go to Rome and the Amalfi Coast near Naples but after the craziness of Cinque Terre and Grossetto we decided to head towards Florence and ...

Livigno., Livigno, Italy travel blog

Livigno.

A travel blog entry by stevefn

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Livigno. ...

Bellagio., Bellagio, Italy travel blog

Bellagio.

A travel blog entry by stevefn

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Bellagio. ...

The flight plan, Rome, Italy travel blog

The flight plan

A travel blog entry by davefremland

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So I woke up this morning all exited to get to Munich this afternoon. I had been hearing a lot about snow and bad weather so i decided randomly to check the airports and guess what?  There was no flight matching mine.  Before getting worked up ...

Arenzano., Arenzano, Italy travel blog

Arenzano.

A travel blog entry by stevefn

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Arenzano. ...

Vatican and St. Peter's Basillica, WOW, Rome, Italy travel blog

Vatican and St. Peter's Basillica, WOW

A travel blog entry by jackie_n_james

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The day we ended up deciding to go to the Vatican and see the museums and the square and basillica was both a good and bad day. On one hand the vatican had been closed for two days so we couldn't have gotten in till this day anyway but on the downside ...

Being Hotel Bums in Rome, Rome, Italy travel blog

Being Hotel Bums in Rome

A travel blog entry by jackie_n_james

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Our last full day in Rome we didn't accomplish much because we were in the lobby in our hotel doing planning for the Spain portion of our trip which was coming up quickly. Our biggest problem was that we wanted to just sit on a beach in Valencia first ...

venice, Venice, Italy travel blog

venice

A travel blog entry by yellowdragon

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... wood. The bedside table next to our bed, constructed with the same material. Breathing the air of the old stones, I feel I am in Italy. Only here the air has a smell full of such history, full of such antiquity, fused with the vibrating waves of mobile ...

Layover in Rome..., Rome, Italy travel blog

Layover in Rome...

A travel blog entry by madman96

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We have to leave to catch a ferry so we can make our flight to Rome and move on to Ibiza, even though neither of us wants to leave.  We make it to the ferry JUST in time but get to the airport with plenty of time to spare before our flight. We ...

Under the Tuscan Sun -- mostly, Florence and Tuscany, Italy travel blog

Under the Tuscan Sun -- mostly

A travel blog entry by chronometers

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GETTING THERE We had originally planned to take a 3 week driving vacation around Italy back in May. Unfortunately, the demands of Melanie's job got in the way so we ended up splitting the vacation into 10 days in Central Europe (see July 31 entry) and 1 ...

What, you want to pay to use the toilet?, Messina, Italy travel blog

What, you want to pay to use the toilet?

A travel blog entry by aussiepanda

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... vibrates the table as they say goodbye to the pilot boat and we head off through the small (3km) straight between Sicily and Italy's mainland.   Was hoping to see the island/volcano of Stromboli, but it looks like we're heading too close to the ...

Florence renaissance overdose, Florence, Italy travel blog

Florence renaissance overdose

A travel blog entry by jeroenandlinda

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We had booked a suite for two days and a standard room for today so we have to change rooms. We packed the suitcases and the Hotel was kind enough to move them later on when the other room was ready. After our breakfast we headed out to the Ufizzi ...

Como, by the lake, Como, Italy travel blog

Como, by the lake

A travel blog entry by ieeworldvoyage

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... house taken separately was not that great in truth (somewhat square or rectangular with narrow windows). We can say that prices in Italy are so much better than in Switzerland... the same basket of cherries costs half...even if it came from the one ...

Roma day 2, Rome, Italy travel blog

Roma day 2

A travel blog entry by hels_belles

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We were off to the Vatican amongst other things today, but not the Sistine chapel - the queue was a complete nightmare!  We had a mosey around St Peters Sq, then decided to go into St Peter's Basilica, which was actually free to get into.  The ...

Happy Bday to ME!, Perugia, Italy travel blog

Happy Bday to ME!

A travel blog entry by jeroenandlinda

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We packed our suitcases, loaded up our little blue Lancia and headed out into the countryside. We were heading out to Perugia. The route that we planned will lead us straight through the Chianti hills and vineyards. It will bring us past Radda and the ...

vienna to venice, Venice, Italy travel blog

vienna to venice

A travel blog entry by yellowdragon

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... out of the wagon. Baidi followed. We were the last passengers to leave the train. Outside we felt the warmth. The warmth of Italy. Right away we felt at home. The air was vibrant of a mysterious and energizing power. We walked some paces. We stopped. We ...

Romantic Rome, Rome, Italy travel blog

Romantic Rome

A travel blog entry by chronometers

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Hi everybody! As part of our search for sun in the Dutch winter we spent a week in Rome at the beginning of February. We found lots of sun and beautiful weather the first half of the week and plenty of rain the other half, but still had a wonderful time ...

Viva Firenze., Florence, Italy travel blog

Viva Firenze.

A travel blog entry by jeroenandlinda

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We woke up to a beautiful sunny day in Florence. The temperature was comfortable as we headed out to explore the city. We walked along the river side towards the Uffizi museum. According to the various sites on the internet it is better to reserve ...

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