http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Clare-Bear-357/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Clare Bear 357 en-us Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:47:38 +0000 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:47:38 +0000 Cioa Tutti Well my little European experience has finally come to an end. I spent it the last few days traveling Southern Italy with my Aunt Uncle and their two friends Charlie and Theresa. We had a lot of fun did a lot of traveling a lot of good eating and a lot of soaking up the sun. After my trip back from Bosnia and Croatia I headed to Hotel Selene where I would meet my Aunt and Un http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Campania/Sorrento/blog-397302.html I just wanted to put some pictures of Croatia up. I don't have really any entry but enjoy the pictures of Croatia http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/Dalmatia/Split/blog-396204.html Well my school semester ended Wednesday April 29th after three months in Florence Firenze and 8 days in Rome Roma. The last few days in Rome were good but I was ready to leave because it was too overwhelming with millions of tourists. Also the ways to get around and to town were strange because we had to take metrorsquos which were fine but the buses didnrsquot have schedules. So http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/South/blog-396198.html I think this travelblog is going to be one ongoing one for the whole week. I am in Rome for about 8 days and we have a lot of sightseeing we are going to do. The best part about it is there is NO school we are DONE and we just get to spend the time traveling my favorite thing to do. Some of the highlights of the trip include attending a Papal Audience going on the Scavvy Tour to see unde http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-393066.html As I spent the past few hours today just enjoying Florence I am so grateful for this experience to study abroad. I have been able to see so much and do so much it has been truly life changing but donrsquot worry Holly Irsquom still me p . I know as a group we all had a week or two where we were sick of each other and sick of living in such a small place sometimes but the group of pe http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-392734.html I spent Spring Break this year in Germany and it was wonderful. I didnrsquot think I was going to have the opportunity to go to Germany but after getting in contact with some relatives I booked a flight and planned my Spring Break out. I stayed with Guenther and Ilse Staedele distant cousins who live in Sontheim Germany about an hour and a half outside of munich. It was worth every Euro http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Munich/blog-390789.html Bonjour So I never thought we could see most of Paris okay probably an overstatement but definitely a lot of it in one jam packed day. But we managed to do it somehowWe headed out later Friday to catch our plane from Pisa. Irsquom not going to lie I wasnrsquot exactly as excited about Paris as I had been for the other trips. In fact I almost didnrsquot go since I had been so si http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-387983.html Ah this weekend was Poland one of my top places to visit. Poland was great even though it seemed like it ended with everything that could possibly go wrong going wrong. But let me start by telling you the good part of the trip.The trip started out fairly smoothly. We got up super early on Friday morning nothing out of the ordinary here caught our train to Milan made it to the airport a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Silesian/Katowice/blog-386211.html Good Afternoon well afternoon for me at leastSunday I took a solo trip to Lucca Italy a little medieval town situated behind giant walls in Northern Tuscany and near the Liguarian Sea. It was established a very long time ago and hold's history through protective walls and the historical streets. The walls which stand 115ft wide at the base and up to 40 ft tall were created to protect http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Lucca/blog-383957.html What a week. On Monday morning all of the BC students staying in Villa Morghen for the semester had to pack up all the stuff from their rooms and move out for the week. We had a trip which was originally only supposed to be a few days to see Assisi and Perugia. However the Villa had a big conference going on the week we were going to be gone so they extended our stay in Assisi and Perugia http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Assisi/blog-383296.html Cioa Tutti Oggi io sono stanco perche io ho viagato a Palermo Sicily esta settimana. Palermo interesante. Palermo grande e ha multo personas. Io ho comita ranciolo gelato. Il mar bellisimo. Io ho nadato in il mar e ho aveto il sol.I just thought Irsquod try out a little of my Italian. Our travel adventures just keep getting earlier and earlier. Friday morning we headed out a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Sicily/Palermo/blog-381972.html What an exhausting weekend but it's a good exhaustion. I spent this weekend in Cinque Terre which means the five cities. It is a place with 5 different cities along the northwest coast of Italy along the Italian Riviera. It is easier to reach by train and then if weather permits people can hike between the different villages. The five villiages starting from the most southern city are http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Liguria/Cinque-Terre/blog-379944.html Hello allI just thought I'd put in a quick blog entry. This week has just been busy with classes but today was wonderful. Out art history class teacher took us to go see the famous David statue created by Michelangelo which was incredible. It stood over 8 feet tall and was so lifelike. Michelangelo put so much detail into it you almost expect himthe David to be a living breathing pers http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-379118.html Wow this weekend was a fun one with lots of train travel and last minute adjustments to travel plans. Friday I stayed in Florence and took a bus to a different part of Florence that I have not seen it was the Piazza Michelangelo which had a gorgeous overlook of the whole city. It was definately nice and a neat place to see. I plan on going back to walk around or go for a run and explore http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-378113.html My full first week of being in Italy and having class all week was pretty busy. Monday and Tuesday was just normal class pretty much all day. On Wednesday we went into Florence with Francesco our art history teacher who took us to 2 different churches as well as some of the architecture we have been studying. It was really neat to see things we have been seing in pictures in real life.Th http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/blog-374900.html CiaoIt's the end of the week and I thought I would give you guys a little update on what's been going on. This weekend most of us decided to stay in Florence and do some sightseeing around here. Thursday night was a really entertaining night. We had an Italian band come in and play some music for us. It was a little welcoming party we. They were really good and even ended up teaching us s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-373677.html Buenosuera Just want to let you know that I made it to Florence Settignano Italy safe and sound. It was quite the journey. I think I packed fairly light for the trip especially compared to some others. My first experiences getting around Italy were a little difficult and intimidating everyone moves and talks so fast but it was fun. We my traveling group laughed a lot because we pret http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/blog-370705.html Hello AllOkay so I now have about 10 days until I leave for Italy and still about 600 pages to read from a book......But I'm getting pretty excited. Sorry there hasn't been any posts lately but I haven't had anything to write. I was just posting this blog to let you all know that this is the blog site I am going to use I opened another one through gmail but I couldn't use it because I co http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Bakersfield/blog-368608.html HelloThis is my second shot at opening a travel blog in order to keep in touch with my friends. I tried one through google but I don't think I can upload pictures so that's no good So this is a test run blog to see how this blog site works. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Bakersfield/blog-362890.html