October 8th, 2005 by mdI realize that I have not answered all the questions you have asked.
Photos. I decided at the last minute to take film pictures instead of digital. That’s why I am not simultaneously posting pics as I go. It seemed like a good plan at the time, and I met yet find that it was the […]
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1 Comment » October 8th, 2005 by mdDid another day trip today into other parts of Tuscany: San Gimignano and Siena. This was a group of towns that typify the Tuscan hilltop town.
I was on my own in SG. That was fun. I was a little nervous at first given my tendencies to get lost and get hurt. The churches are – […]
Category : Travel October 8th, 2005 by mdToday I had a nice day trip to several town outside Florence:Pisa and Luca. Luca was by far, my favorite of the two.
Pisa is the little town that couldn’t. Couldn’t build the tower properly. Couldn’t avoid being swallowed under Florence’s influence. Couldn’t resist the temptation to build sixties era concrete block apartment buildings amidst an […]
Category : Travel October 6th, 2005 by mdI met my guide today in the lobby at 9 – are you noticing the pattern? This time he was a he and he was an expat Canadian who was strangely secretive about his past. That just made me more persistent and I finally got it out of him after a few hours. It seems […]
Category : Travel October 6th, 2005 by mdToday was a traveling day. I took a train from Venice to Florence, about a three hour trip. It was really easy and comfortable. When I got here, the weather was sunny and mild so I took a short walk around the neighborhood of my hotel. I am staying close to the Arno River and […]
October 5th, 2005 by mdThis was a great day. I met the guide in the lobby at 9. She was very professional and from a very old Venetian family. We got into a water taxi and headed out to the Lagoon Islands of Murano and Burano. I asked her if we could save some time to visit Bevilacqua workshop […]
October 4th, 2005 by mdToday was fun. I met my guide, Christina, in the lobby at 9AM. She was very pleasant and her guiding skills were excellent. They were almost excellent enough to take my mind off the fact that it was raining incredibly hard. This was a Noah-esque downpour. It was almost comical when, standing in front of […]
Category : Travel October 4th, 2005 by mdHello. I am in Venice. It’s really beautiful even though it’s 10PM and raining. The whole freaking place is on the water. They aren’t kidding around about this canal thing. The driver who took me by water taxi from the airport to the hotel was going incredibly fast and it made me really nervous. It […]
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