so this has become our general plan for the day since we have been in Italy. Of course, some gelato and espresso breaks are thrown in there, and we usually end the day with some wine. We arrived in Florence on Tuesday evening, quickly found our hotel, and after haggling with the receptionist (for some reason she wanted to charge us more for air conditioning) we got checked in and headed out in search of dinner. As we were wandering around looking for something to eat, we were flagged down by some of our classmates from France who were in line [View Full Entry]

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Arrived in Santa Margherita on Saturday the 29th, about an hour after we had planned due to a missed connection in Genova, so we didnt have our welcome wagon waiting at the train station. We walk down the hill to the waterfront to try and call Ni and Krissy, but no one is home. As we set out to find the address, I hear my name being yelled from across the street. (our backpacks make us stand out like a sore thumb in a resort town) Krissy spotted us from her store front. Quick tour of the four Kristine Orsi Boutiques [View Full Entry]

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We just finished our last final ever of our undergraduate careers!!! wooohoooo! sorry for the lack of updates over the last couple months, but with no internet at the chateau, and being incredibly busy with school there hasnt been a whole lot of time to venture into Canne for internet access. Class was pretty intense over the last couple weeks, lecture in the mornings five days a week, we visited 11 museums, wrote 9 short essays, one long paper, had one oral presentation and just took our two hour final... aside from that we have to admit that sometimes we were [View Full Entry]

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Since we didnt have interent access much of the time we were in France I figured we could add some more pictures to show more of where we went and what we did there. [View Full Entry]

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So I guess Montelimar (the Nougat capitol of the world) is too small of a town to list by the blog site, but not too big for the tour. When checking the maps to see how close the tour was coming I thought, hour, two tops by train. Well no, it was four and a half hours one way. But shit... its the Tour! So we embarked on our journey from La Napoule at 5:45 by bike (how appropriate- the trains and busses didnt run eary enough for us to catch the train) to catch out 6:30 train from Canne. We [View Full Entry]

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We decided not to tease you any longer and let you see what we have been talking about. [View Full Entry]

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As fun as our Parisian adventure was, we were ready to head to the south of france and start classes. We occupied our 5 hour train ride by taking turns reading David Sedaris's stories about moving to france and learning the new language. If you havent read his book "Me Talk Pretty One Day" do it! It is hilarious, and after struggling with the language barrier in Paris it was that much more hysterical to read about his experience. After 5 hours we switched trains in Cannes and headed to La Napoule. We had been informed that the place we were [View Full Entry]

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So our long and exhqsting flight; we landed at CDG mid morning on thursday (after leaving on wed). Feeling rather confused and out of place, we made it to our hotel, abd set out on the town to explore via 'Fat Tire Bike Tour of Paris' No this was not q pub crawol, but a bike tour on beach cruisers. It was a nice way to get a feel for the geography of this small but busy city and exactly what Robin needed to stay awake (all patrick needed was caffeine). We adjusted to the nine hour time difference fairly quickly [View Full Entry]

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So we are finally leaving the hot, cow smelling town of Davis after 5 years and are ready to figure out what happens next. We both graduated with B.S.s; Patrick's in Civil Engineering and Robin's in Graphic Design. We also will both have minors in Art History and strategically planned it so that we would have to take our last class this summer in France. So far the plan is to spend a week in Paris before heading to the Riviera which is where we will have class for 3 weeks, and then off to Italy to explore for another [View Full Entry]

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