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... starving and somewhere around 5:00 which was really our 12:00 am we went off in search of a place to eat and walked toward the Coloseum as instructed. Half way there I fell, Mick was ahead of me and then all of a sudden my water bottle was ahead of him and I was on the grounjd. Yup, scraped knee and bruised ego, but the worse was there was people that saw me fall and then saw Mick hold ...

... the only place my right arm would fit was at the very rear of the armrest. Of COURSE that is where my lovely wife decided she needed her arm to hold the book she was reading.

Tomorrow can’t arrive soon enough.
The trip from Frankfurt was very uneventful and I slept for about 20 minutes of the 1-hour flight.

When we arrived in Milan we chased around for awhile before finding the best way to get to the main train station and our ...

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... like Sorrento so the businesses were not for profit really but a living and they did not work at a job it was their life, home, pride, etc.

Anyway, I went to 7 p.m. mass up the hill. It was all in Italian and the nuns led some prayers I think prior, but as with Catholic services, the same as usual with the opening blessing, prayer for forgiveness, scripture reading, the responorial psalm, the gospel reading, a sermon, breaking of ...

... and at the end of the night I was so tired that I just thought of sleeping under a olive tree, putting up my tent seemed like a huge mission. I got to a little town of Cassino around dusk and was desperately looking fo some place to crash. I saw this yard, which at the end was a big grey and dark looking building. I explored it bit closer and it looked like the bottom floor was abandoned....no the whole building was abandoned for ****s sake! I left my bike down ...

... a goatee and a hair salon called "Pepe" cut my hair, and Ruggero told me that I looked like a buffalo. Wait, I think I already told you about that in my last entry. Umm... I... met two American au pairs in the park across the street, one of whom will come out with me sometime tomorrow to get a coffee in town and exchange stories. She's from Long Beach, wears a headscarf that made me think of Utah, and lived one year in Florence (!) while she was in college. I have been playing ...

... Marini, Kandinsky, Picasso, Magritte, Rothko and many other. Peggy Guggenheim built up her collection between 1938 and 1947 and bought the Palazzo Venier deileoni in 1948 where she lived until her death in 1979. To finish off my day I went to eat at Osteria da Alberto. The Rustic tavern is frequented by Venetians too. They serve Sarde in soar, spaghetti busara, and squid in their ink with Polenta.

... practice all the spanish the spanish people here on exchange have been teaching me. It's fun to talk in spanish/italian!!). Anyways, somewhere in his ordering process, he confused the length of the trip with some other aspect of the ordering process so rather than taking the typicaly 4.5 hr journey, we were on a train taking 7 hrs to get to Rome! Anyways, our train was one of those that- rather than having seats we're familiar with on airplanes or on short ...

... time on the walking tour... good idea in my opinion. We saw the Spanish Steps, Piazza Popolo (where one of the murders in Angels and Demons occurs), the Capichin Monks' Bone House, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, Victor Emanual II monument (looks like a giant typewriter), The Trader's Forum, The Roman Forum and The Colosseum. I couldn't' believe I was in Rome! My jaw dropped when I saw the Colosseum... to be dwarfed by it was awe inspiring. Day 15 - Rome ...

A popular vacation spot in the north of Italy, not too far from Florence. We were allowed a free day here as we weren't yet due in Rome. A very large and pleasant lake that has been a popular resort area since the time of Imperial Rome. Mussolini was known for his extravagant parties at his villa here.