Da Vinci Montecatini Terme

... Leaning Tower began to lean after its architect had completed only three tiers of the building. Most believe that the tower began leaning because of "shifting soil" – and then it continued to incline about 1mm every year since it was built! In 1998, however, the City of Pisa (realizing, I think, that if the tower ever fell over, their tourism industry would be severely curtailed!) wrapped cables around the third story of the ...

nous sommes rester a florence pour terminer notre visite la ville en allant aux jardins boboli et bardini, situe dans la cours du palais pitti. Deux grand jardins qui a cette date n'ont plus autant a offrir qu'en ete. il n'y a plus de fleur, et la moitie des arbres n;ont plus de feuille, mais on a pu constater l'ampleur de la propriete en passant tout l'apres midi a ...

... at Baby Boo, all for what seemed like several minutes. When she finally stood upright again, she looked me in the eye and declared, with conviction, “BAMBINA!” (GIRL!). I felt like I had been transported to Japan, and was part of some ancient Japanese ritual at the hands of a wise, old medicine woman – only I was in Italy, standing in front of the sushi counter at an upscale Japanese restaurant that was playing an Asian-Enya-like ...

partie de pise pour se rendre a Florence en toscane. On s'approche tranquillement de la region de Chianti ! Encore uen ville magnifique ou l'on ne peut pratiquement rien prendre en phtoto tellement les rues sont etroites. Le duomo, le 3e plus haut de l'europe est visible de tres loin. Ensuite, de piazza en piazza, nous avons traverser la ville pour voir des tres grand edifice , souvent construit avant meme la decouverte de l'amerique!! Nous avons ...

... whatever we wanted from that room... This was at 3pm too, not like we arrived at some weird hour.
The "dorm" was just an apartment with 6 beds in 1 room, a kitchen and 4 beds in the room joined to the kitchen with no door between - check out the photos on facebook.
Glad we booked the cheaper 6 bed dorm and not the more expensive 4 bed!!!
Found out later that day they have another "dorm" downstairs with a 6 bed room and a double bed in ...

... packed and ready to go on the bus with 3 minutes to spare. I have to say everyone has been quite prompt and efficient. We've been very proud of them. The weather was gorgeous. Sunny blue skies and clear waters twinkled at us as we headed out of Genoa. The countryside was gorgeous. We stopped at a rest stop for lunch. It certainly is very different from our kind of rest stops. They had fruit salad, salad bar, grilled items with ...

... each person in class if they played any instruments, and I told him I played guitar and sang along with it. Then I told him about the night in the Lion's Fountain (in perfect Italian, of course), and he said that I would have to play for the class someday. Yeah, sure. I'll even throw in a couple encores. I thought he was kidding, so I said, sure, but that I didn't have a guitar here (huge lie). He said that it wasn't a problem, and that there ...

Up until this point I was really good about not loosing my stuff. I have only lost my cell phone charger which isn't really a big deal since I only use it for its alarm on mornings I have to leave the city early. But obviously I spoke to soon because as soon as I realized that I immediate went on to loose two more things within the same day. First would be my food bag and although I would have not been terribly unset at ...

... art supplies one day downtown, but fumbled my way through it. The same when I was buying a backpack. I knew colors and size words, so that worked. I surprised both Chad and myself one day when I asked a waiter in a restaurant where the restroom was and then understood the directions. I always thought it was cliche when travel and guide books say if you are trying to speak their language, most people will appreciate it. Guess that's a pretty good ...

... around, with layer of cloud and fog in between giving the mountains in the distance that fading look as they got progressively lighter the further away they were. Like looking down Kootenay Lake and being able to see the layers of mountains in the distance. Red rooftops, the Duomo, Museums, Ponte Vecchio and the other 3 or 4 bridges spanning the Arno River. It was great for about 2 minutes until I was approached by this Italian guy that saw me taking picture with my camera. Oh for peat's sake ...