DAYS: 15 DAYS OF PLANNING: 175 HOTELS RESEARCHED: 140ISH EURO RATE: (1,000 US dollars would equal:) 1ST DAY 1.46 (684 EURO) 8TH DAY 1.40 (714 EURO) 15TH DAY: 1.36 (735 EURO) MARKET CRASH AFTER TRIP: 1.23 (813 EURO) MILES TRAVELED: 10,145 (by way of google maps) CITIES VISITED: 17 NEWARK, New Jersey FIUMICINO, Lazio ANCONA, Le Marche SENIGALLIA, Le Marche BOLOGNA, Emilia-Romagna FLORENCE, Tuscany POGGIBONSI, Tuscany SAN GIMIGNANO, Tuscany RIOMAGGIORE, Liguria MANAROLA, Liguria CORNAGLIA, Liguria VERNAZZA, Liguria MONTEROSSA, Liguria PISA, Tuscany G [View Full Entry]

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WE FINALLY LEARNED. we had reserved a private mercedes escort to take us to the airport, how pimp is that. nice fancy leather tricked out mercedes came and picked us up and drove about 130kmh to the airport. and guess what, jenn was 1 hour behind on her watch again.. this time we didnt find out till the terminal sitting down, not a big issue but i need to but her a digital 1 for xmas. got on the plane, downed 1.25 liters of wine to myself to calm my nerves. took few quick naps and listened to that pimp ass [View Full Entry]

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grabbed a bite in saint peters square. a formaccia and a cannoli i think. we walked into the square and this time the line to get in was about 100feet long and moving. YESS , we got lucky again!!!. we toured the church, where that pope dude preaches from, bought some 'rosemary' beads. then we walked to the vatican museum. that line was about 45min long. jenn got in for student price, thats why i date middle school girls, eheheheh. toured the museum. saw the sistine chapel...... WOW!!!!! it was sureal again to look up at it and see what everybody [View Full Entry]

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so we sorta slept in and started to walk to main tourist area of rome. we walked thru saint peters square and at 9:30am the line to get into the church was no lie a quarter mile long and what looked like about 2.5hrs. we strolled on thru checking out the river and some big castle just down from saint petes. looked at the pantheon, nice. walked to the piazza navona, nice. walked thru some goverment complexes with armed security. some protestors and then on to the spanish steps. hehehe, as we got to the top i saw a guy. i [View Full Entry]

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Checked out of the Alma Domus no prob and then the adventure begins!!!!! well we had some time to sorta waste so we decided to see if we could walk back to the train station, after we already said it was too far, and after i had already bought bus tickets. we started waiting for a bus, then we couldnt tell which one to catch or where so we huffed it. well we walked around our ass, a couple of times... and long story short, we got to the train station, 20min our 'train', went to buy tix and he said [View Full Entry]

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we woke up early again and packed and go on the train to pisa. when we got to pisa we had a little trouble figuring out which rosa bus to take. got on, got to the piazza del miracoli and walked around a leaning tower. it was pretty cool to actually be there after seeing it my whole life. i remember reading about it in 7th grade and thinking... oh how cool, too bad ill never see it. humm.. wierd. got to station and got on the train to siena. it was a nice ride. change trains in poggibonsi. we get [View Full Entry]

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woke up from the damn church bells, also bc we were excited to get up. i left jenn in bed and went walking around town to look for a place to wash clothes. found the only place in town, 4 washers 2 dryers, 1 dryer broke, cost .... 5euro. i went and grabbed myself a formaccia sandwich, i fell in love with them things!!!!. walked to the marina and found our restaurant we had reservations for that night, looks ...umm alright i guess. went to the barrier wall between marina and sea and saw jenn come out on the balcondy about [View Full Entry]

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we woke up fairly early and checked out of the hotel monica, 5 days =475euro We got to the train station and bought tickets with about 5min to spare.... ok so we go to the track that we the schedule tells us. and unless youve been to florence you should know there are 2 track 1's, one is on the main concorse and the other on a sperated platform. we get there and we the doors are closed to the train. i push the button and the doors ont open. we wait.... then on the track behind us a train come [View Full Entry]

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we woke up late around 11 went to piazza san marco to chill went to the academy were the orginal david is spent 45min in there. it was something else to sit there and look up at the david.. wow also.... realize that alot of paintings of jesus have a wound in his right breast that bleeding... why? walked the riverfront and looked at all the shops i cant shop in walked some more took a nap called family got money from atm.... i was sneaky about it i found an atm, steaked it out. i stood back and looked for [View Full Entry]

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took us a while to figure out how to get here.... took a bus to poggibonsi... that damn town stunk bad near the train station.... got connecting bus to 'san jimmy' wow what a spectacular town we walked all around the best view is from the northeast corner in some old fort area.... great views of chianti country it started to rain just as we were eating lunch. we drank some chianti colli sensia (sp) and it was damn it good so we decided to buy wine for our gifts and mail it back, spend 100euro on 9 bottles of wine, [View Full Entry]

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