we slept in, damn we needed that we grabbed a great chicken parm pannini on the way to the duomo went inside duomo, it was big... sorry im not a poet to write about what i saw it was tall :) then we payed 6 each to walk the 463 steps up to the top. well you follow a tight circular staircase up, then you on a 24inch wide ledge what wraps around the inside of the dome, well your about 25stories up on a 24inch ledge with just a glass gate protecting you. then you climb some more, up to [View Full Entry]

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Bion serra we are in the "tribeca" of florence, across the arno river on the south side. florence is a very busy city, damn scooters are crazy. jenn almost got hit twice. we have only had one bad meal, it was a touristy place. for those wanting to know, it is damn better to get your euro cash over here, the mainland use rates suck!!!!! we got to san giammano tomorrow the weather is nice, cool at night. its pretty safe here, we only saw one pinch go down so far. we have seen the duomo and baptistry and just about [View Full Entry]

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woke up, started walking to the bargelo museum and turned around bc i forgot the tix. got there, and based on our uffizi tix we looked at jenns watch and gave us 45min here it was 6 for entry, we walked around, i fell in love with the 'beheading of john the baptist' statues a curator yelled at me for taking pics inside. i enjoyed all the statues and shit recognized some famous ones got to uffizi, ok got in line, wrong line, we had reservations but didnt redeem our codes for real tix, went to redemtion line, and the guy [View Full Entry]

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ummm woke up hung over as shit!!!!!!!!!!! that damn LEMONCELLO!!!!!!!!!! luckily my pharaceutical advisor had phennigran which i popped and it sorta help. well got to the train station in senigallia and used the self service train tickets booth. the tickets cost half as much as they should have... i dunno got on a train and headed to Pesaro. i started to feel nervous bout the tix and train... looked at a map... going the wrong damn way!!!! ...sorta the train we wanted went to ancona then bologna.... the tain we were on went to ancona then pesaro.... LUCKILY we realized [View Full Entry]

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youll like this day... up bout 9am, looked at the breakfast buffett in the hotel.... found out that this country doesnt eat a hot breakfast, or healthy. just a bunch of sweets, doughnut like croissants etc, some salami and cheese though. tried their fresh orange juice.... blagggeeoo. not was i was used to. trust me this was 1 of 2 things i didnt like in italy. hit the road and walked toward the main part of the city. we looked around the whole town, i mean the whole town. what a beautiful town. small, quiet, peaceful, friendly. some good sites to [View Full Entry]

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Got on the long train ride to Falcona-Marmimar. This high speed train went about 120kmh, or around 80mph. going thru those tunnels fast made jenn and my ears pop. oh yeah we didnt realize our tickets gave us assigned seats and we found out when some couple started telling us something in italian and by there gestures and tickets in hand i put 2 and 2 together. So about and hour into the train, or about hour 23 of our day we started to nap... well i thought jenn was reading and wasnt tired... well we passed out. slept thru [View Full Entry]

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hey guys we made it to senigallia. without anything going wrong!!!!!!!!!!!! we actually got here 3hrs early, we got the early train from rome. we are checking in as i type this. its about 60degrees in the town though... cold front. we are going up to our room now. ttyl [View Full Entry]

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So today was the big day. I left the fire station and met jenn and her mom at brueggers. hung out a bit and headed to my parents. got a haircut by my hair cutter... jenn. Then we just sat around waiting to leave for the airport. When we got there we checked our backs, exchanged jenns cash into euros. Todays rate was e-$=1.633 or $-e=0.612. We went thru security, showed em my matching socks and went to the sports bar in Term. A. Ordered 2 tall Sammys and was feeling a bit easier. Got on this Q400 turboprop plane [View Full Entry]

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Hey everybody.... well its already crept up on us, and the time did fly. the time to come is soon, which kinda sucks bc that means it will be a memory soon. We are all set. Only thing left to do is pack and get cash. The euro was at .61cents when we planned this, its currently at .71cents. Thas an extra 300 euros over an estimated $3000. We have made some significant travel changes however. We are no longer going to Naples, Capri, Pompei. Instead we are going to the Adriatic Sea on the east coast to a town called [View Full Entry]

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Well we finished our planning phase. All hotels are booked and confirmed, down to the floor, view, breakfast, bathroom etc. I have read at least 200 reviews on these 5 hotels. And if you look at my sheets of paper here in front of me, i researched approx. 180 different hotels on the entire trip. Wow im a nerd. Our Siena hotel has a curfew of 1am, which most hotels in that city have so the owners can go to bed. Wired huh? When averaged out over the trip our hotels are $137 a nite, which is similiar to America i [View Full Entry]

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