Mignon Hotel Padua

Almost immediately after returning from Perugia, a few of us started packing for a three day weekend in Venice. We were a little worried about our flight with Ryanair, but it really couldn't have gone more smoothly. We got into Venice around 8pm on Saturday, checked into our apartment, and immediately set off for St Mark's Square and the opening...

Just got home from Venice! It was awesome!! We got there late Thursday night and just went to bed. Friday was freezing cold and raining, but other than that it was great. Friday we went to two islands, Buranno and Muranno....one's famous for glass blowing and we watched a demonstration and the other's famous for lace so we just walked around. Th...

Trento habe ich am nächsten Morgen wieder verlassen, da der Schnee auf den Strassen grösstenteils weggeräumt schien. Ich bin dann durch das südlichste Alpental vor Venedig von Trento hoch nach Pergine und dann bei wunderbaren Rückenwind bis Bassano del Grappa geradelt. Unterwegs habe ich noch die Ehre gehabt, mit dem zweifachen Olympiateilnehmer...

After an early start (4am) we had a good journey around the M25 to Gatwick. The flight was fine and on good day we would have been treated to amazing aerial views of Venice on landing but alas our landing was cloudy, we still got an alright view of the Venetian skyline though.
The airport was easy to negotiate and buying tickets for the Vapo...

Usually, this blog features stories of my travels, or if not that, at least cultural experiences.  I am going to make a slight exception today, due to the gravity of... f it.  This is not a tone you hear from me usually.  But even days later, I'm tired, I'm still shocked, I'm still upset. So here is something I wrote yesterday.... I was just rea...

· Venice, Italy · GMT +1:00 hour Italy. Il Bel Paese? It wasn't too long before we crossed into Italy, a momentous occasion that was marked by the arrival in our carriage of some rough looking Italian wearing a blue vest and who's only responsibility, apart from throwing his weight around, was to make sure all passengers identified their luggage...

(S): In what I like to call the Rainy Sights of Beautiful Italia Tour, we spent a soggy Feb 25 in Venice and a even more dismal March 2 in Siena. Venice - all that's magical and romantic about the world, right? Well, we hadn't killed each other yet, but close. Luckily, I had a train ride to cheer me up. The hotel was nice. Then we set out to fin...

today was a fun day. sarah and i woke up early - 7:00 am-ish - so it didn't feel like we slept through another day. we had some breakfast (used the espresso maker for the first time, to make regular coffee. i had to light the stove with a lighter and the resulting coffee was interesting but it was fun.) then we headed out to the internet cafe, a...

The original university town Honestly, things in Padova got off to a bad start in Padova. Gabe had a bad customer service experience and wanted to go back to the shop and give the staff a piece of his mind (in his best broken Italian). Shilo convinced him this was time poorly spent. On our first day we really just strolled this city's wonderful...

Journal Entry covering 18th-21st: Travelled to Florene on the 18th. Stopped at a perfumery on the way (Fragonard). Interesting seeing how the perfumes are made. The smell was very strong! The bus smelled good after our visit, however. Florence is a lovely city & would have been even more lovely with better weather. We were going to get our group...