today i woke up with red hot sunburn and, i kid you not, about 30 mosquito bites. the itching is making me lose my mind!!! so instead of staying until 6 like i planned, i changed my train ticket and jumped on the 2pm train back to torino. i had to get out of the sun and put some alcohol on my bites to take the itch away. so i took some last minu...

today is gloriously sunny, blue skies as far as the eye can see!! finally, i had begun to refer to italy as seattle. so today is the day for all of the most popular sights of venice. i began by going to st. marks square, piazza san marco, which is where all the magical pictures you see of venice are taken. i wandered around and saw all the sight...

last night i left for venice and will be staying for the weekend. it was about a 5 hour trip by train, not too bad. walking out of the venice train station literally takes your breath away- you walk out the door and the beauty of venice smacks you right in the face. all of the "buses" are of course boats because there are no cars in venice. so i...