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My last post covered one of my favorite ride/runs that my buddy and I found in Tuscany.   A lot of the time our trips out of town did incorporate both running and riding and I’ll definitely share more of those routes later.  Today I want to share some of the rides that constituted our main bike days, the days we ran in town, and the days we just needed to spin.  I’m not implying that the rides are low quality in any way; they are all beautiful and fun, or beautiful and...

I am no longer being crabby and have started talking to people once again.  Which is great because I met these two Filipino girls last night eating dinner at the table next to mine.  And they were from LA and we were walking around the piazza afterwards and saw all these groups of Filipino people and one of them said, "Wow, Rome is like the Daly City of Italy."  That was when I decided that making friends IS good.  hahaha.  This theory was tested when this guy I met...

  (cont'd...) It must be the smallest elevator I've seen, only three of us were able to fit in going up to his apartment. There we exchanged pleasantries with his family and I was told that it's his birthday that day. After lunch, we continued our conversation at the balcony located on the upper floor. The location afforded us again of the wonders of its city - bird's eye view! From there, you wouldn't see any crowd, but only a blanket of red...

I was on a three-month backpacking trip through Europe and I was scheduled to fly out of Rome. I had met up with several friends new and old during my trip but at this point in the summer I was traveling solo. Unfortunately I had slightly misjudged my budget/blown all my dough on museums, ballets, chocolate and wine. I decided to be a bit more frugal for my remaining twelve days. I ended up crashing in a train station on the east side of town. Not the most luxurious of accommodations but it w...

Today, we traveled from Klagenfurt, Austria all the way here to Padua. It is a small old historic town about 30 minutes outside of Venice. Klagenfurt was a fun, relaxing stop on the way here. It was a charming Austrian town with a great Macdonald's! The drive through the northern Italian mountains was beautiful. Anyway, the hotel here in Padua (Padova in Italian) is super nice (4 star), complete with a bedet (sp?) and high speed internet. I already love how people talk down here, it is so smo...

Italy this time of the year is in Winter (Dec - Feb) which is far from what we are experiencing on the other side of the world in Australia. Not having experienced a European winter before I was a little unsure of what to expect and let me say now I wish I had packed my nice warm ski jacket! Needless to say I boarded the plane full of enthusiam (Singapore Airlines are the best)....and set off on my adventure! I arrived early Sunday morning on the 9th of Dec in jeans, a t-shirt and a pair of t...

Inside Turin (Torino), my hometown, during the olimpics. Something to let you know abt my wonderful city, and his inhabitants. Just enjoy.

Saturday morning it was off and away for me to Italy - the flight was leaving at 8 a.m., which doesn't sound too early and actually isn't early at all - bu still I had to get up at 5 a.m. - thank God we live near the airport! :) I was sleepy as ****, guess it didn't help to do my packing in the very late evening/night... But anyway, off we were! Was looking forward to getting a bit of sleep in the plane, but no way - beside me on the plane sat a young german mother with her 1-year-old daughte...

The mother from the family was collecting me at the airport with her father. I got a huge surprise when I discovered that the two kids I was going to be teaching engligh to were about to become three! The agency didn't tell me that she was eight and a half months pregant. It took an hour to drive from Milan to Bergamo. The drive was nothing special...just a highway like any other. But when we got to Bergamo everything changed and I got my first glimpse of Italia. Bergamo has&...

Venice, WOW!  This city definatly tops Paris as the city of love.  This place is absolutly beautiful!  I want to come back when I'm older (with company, preferably male and married to me).  The best part about the city is there are no cars.  It's so nice and peaceful.  The bridges and canals and gondolas, everything is so beautiful!  We took a water taxi out to the islands of Venice, saw St. Mark's Square but didn't go into the church, the queue was too long...

The first weekday since arriving in Rome. As soon as we woke up we walked through the Vatican to John Cabot University to visit my future school. We got there just as classes were beginning, we asked the secretary about a tour of the school and she sent someone down from the offices. A woman from admissions office came to greet us, she gave me a bag with all the information I could need inside. She showed us around the school, it didn’t take long since the school is very small. The...

We started the day with a nice breakfast on a terrace in the town centre. It would have been a waste not to try a coffee in Italy... I still don't like coffee, even Latte coffee! I climbed up to the Cathedral (via Della Cattedrale, nice way). From there, there is a nice view of Trieste. I could not find the way to the castle, so I went back to the town centre by “il Teatro Romano”. All those monuments were quite impressive, not really because of the beauty, more because of the history th...

This was really a wonderful show, an incredible view of the fireworks and the Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian training ship.

2007

I get to travel here with my 4 batchmates.. And what makes the trip real fun is  I met 3 Asians who are all set to explore one of the biggest fashion capitals of the world. So here we are - 3 Filipinos, 2 Malaysians, 2 Thais and 1 Indian ready to set foot on Milano's soil.Our first stop is to get a taste of Italian Pasta, pizza and gelato.. I got my pesto in a cafe near our hotel at Gelateria Trentina, we waited for like an hour to get our order.  Mine was really good so it was wort...