Padua: the tour de Italia begins!

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 smooth and macho. After hearing harsh German for so long, my ears are happy. Tomorrow, we will be exploring the art here in town, and the next two days we will be venturing into Venice itself. Also, I just posted a ton of photos from earlier in the trip, so check them out! More news from Venice to come...