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Viterbo spas & Tarquinia Necropolis
... we'd booked a twilight walk, and had to meet the guide at 17:50. This ended up not a problem either - we got there with at least 2 minutes to spare! Our place is 20m from Campo Di Fiori, a market by day & a square of bars & restaurants at night. The street is full of small boutiques - C is worried we wont have enough time! Apartment is on 1st floor, so we don't start/end the day with the agony of 84 steps as we did in ...
Etruscan Exploration
The last day of our excursion led us up an extremely winding road that was slightly terrifying in our tour bus. However, Italian bus drivers are experts and we not only made it there safely but also did not run anyone over!
Pitigliano is a city that looks as if it sprung from the craggy mountaintops. It kind of did. According to our tour guide, ...
Abbronzatura in the Mediterranean
I'm going back in time a little bit. My weekend was so jam packed and I didn't have time to write about it due to my crazy classes.
Friday afternoon I embarked on a three day excursion to Maremma, a region of Tuscany that is located by the coast of the Mediterranean. The trip was organized by my program--SAI--and included in our tuition. So, not only was I able to escape for a weekend, but I'd already paid for it! Indirectly, of course.
Our first night was ...
Excursion en Toscane, 6 septembre 2012
Aujourd'hui, nous avons fait une excursion avec Walkabout tours à partir de la gare Santa Maria Novella de Florence.
Nous sommes arrivés au point d'embarquement vers 8h15 am et sommes partis vers 8h30 pour la Toscane. Nous étions environ 48 personnes dans l'autobus.
Le premier arrêt s'est fait dans la ville de Sienne. Nous avons posé pied sur la Piazza del Campo où a lieu deux fois par année la Palio ...
I spy with my little eye...
... city founded about 800 BC. Inhabited for thousands of years until definitively abandoned in the dark ages due to malaria and raids.
The river Fiora runs over the blue-black basalt rock worn by millennia, forming strange shapes and pools. The river then flows over a waterfall and into a deep lake below, with stalacitie ...