Italy Travel Blogs - Page 8

The next day we all woke up, surprisingly sans hangovers.  Wonderful! Time to go swimming.  The geniuses in us decided that any place would be a good place to swim, so we parked our stuff near a rocky area that had lots of barnicles.  Yeah.  Not smart.  We ended up cutting …

Tiziana, Marcello and Claudio drove me back to the Fiumicino Airport in Rome.  Chieti actually was fog-free that day.  However, as we went further west and closer to the Lazio-Abruzzo border we found SNOW!   yes SNOW!  I mean snow to the point it was BLIZZARD SNOW!  We got …

Lack of Euro football meant that since last summer I'd only been away once, to Zakynthos in October, and I was starting to climb the walls. Sat one Friday and decided I needed to get away and looked at the options and decided on Rome. Only for 3 days but it would do. Was sitting booking it up and …

After Pompeii, we took the speed train from Naples back up to Rome and spent one last evening in our city, this time shopping and eating.  As a wedding present to myself, I bought a Furla bag, which, I must say, was a very good deal.  If you're looking for a quality leather handbag, Furla…

This amazing trip started in amazing Siena, Tuscany. We drove all day from The Netherlands to this place and i was happy when we finally got here. Because the historicle center of the city isn't allowed for cars we didn't have an impression of the city yet. We found our hotel, parked the car, left …

We read in our travel guide that it could be very busy in Vatican City when you want to visit St. Peter. We decided to visit this church in the morning and we were just on time. Five minutes after we entered the row in front of the church the row became bigger and bigger. We were so happy that mome…

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 hou…

One of the most beautiful town in the world, with his monuments and his history. A must for everyone.

Rome is amazing because you're in the middle of a big, busy city...but then you round a corner and see something ancient and incredible. A word to the wise: just be careful with the crime, especially when going out at night. And the traffic is pretty crazy!

So, Venice is getting better- my last entry was a little negative, I know, but I was having a bit of a day.... We've seen so many beautiful things, and aside from the hotel staff and train station staff, people here are very nice.  The setting makes it all worth it.  The students have be…

Smooth and good flight across the Atlantic to green Amsterdam, perfect connection to Milan with exciting tantalizing views of Switzerland and the snowy alps! Just before boarding a tired Alitalia MD-80 to Palermo, asked the agent to check on Judge's flight, and said he (got the much earlier-than-ti…

Our final performance with Carlos and Katrin... first I add pictures and then write about the craziness

Had a great time with my gorgeous (no really) daughter. Would do a few things different.

I spent 3 weeks in Italy, staying in wonderful families and travelling to great cities, eating great food and having lots of fun with really cool people!

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