Resortquest At Blue Sky Lodge Montecatini Terme

What of life'spleasures could surpass fresh Tuscan bread spread with thick local butter and a slab of local cheese? We are putting on the pounds since we arrived in Italy, but since we got to Lucca, the problem has grown really serious. Our apartment here has to be seen to bebelieved - it's in an old building but is a modern apartment with heati...

So this weekend was my first real adventure outside of Rome. Me, my roommates, and some of our other friends in our program met up in Florence and all stayed together in the same hostel. It took a 16 Euro, 4 hour train ride each way, and even more walking than I do here in Rome. Maybe it was just because in Rome, we can save all of our sightseei...

This week was super busy, our Venice and Spring Break trips start tomorrow which means I get to see my family soon! AND I'm going to Sevilla at the end of the week to see Christine!!! Monday and Tuesday we had class, not anything too exciting (my ring for jewelry is being cast in silver this week!) Wednesday we took a trip to Siena, It rained i...

After dinner Tuesday night, we walked around our hotel to find a place with free wifi. The Italians do not believe in free internet here, only internet cafés so our mission to download The Bachelor was not working out as planned. We got so desperate that we were walking around, with our laptops open, checking the airports to see what places had ...

After breakfast, we coach through the rolling Florentine hills to San Donato village, established in 1402. The scenic views envelope the senses like a Renaissance painting. Visit Fattoria San Donato, a farm with 200 hectacres of vineyards and olive trees. The Frenzi family, owners since 1932 gladly welcome us for our agro-tourism experience. We ...

Got up Saturday and did the dishes, washed the counter and some of the bathroom stuff, took a shower and finished packing up my things. It was a pretty quick good-bye, because Tai had already headed out to sign in to his Florence hostel for that evening. I left with my huge hiking backpack, another backpack in one hand and my guitar in the other...

We arrived in Firenze (Florence) at around 3pm (side note: Josh is finally taking the lead in the running gin game). We found our hostel after taking only a minor detour and got settled in. We then headed just down the street to Galleria Dell'Accademia to see Michelangelo's "David". It truly is an amazing sculpture that has to be seen to be trul...

I was on the otherside of the piazza when I noticed her there, and even though it had been two minutes since we last saw each other, to both of us, it felt like 5 years, 3 months, 22 hours, 38 minutes and 29 seconds. There was only one thing to do, so we ran to each other, falling into open arms, then came the kiss, longing, loving, tenderly on ...

SO, here we are in Italy! BONJOURNO PRINCIPESSA!!! thats all i know for the time being. sad isnt it? But yes, the train ride here was absolutely the longest train ever, but we did get some very nice scenery. We stopped in Nice (so i can now say ive been to nice. we actually ate breakfast there...) and then went onward to Milan, but we didnt get ...

So after another nite in Rome, this morning we left and headed out for Florence. Nothing much really happened today. We opted not to join a tour which would have taken us to Leonardo's statue of David and into some Dome with more art. So we pretty much hang around the square and did some shopping/hanging out. We took pictures of the copy of the ...