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Day 18 Photos of our adventures Dreading flying with U.S. Air today. We did not have a good start to our trip thanks to them. We are skeptical at best about what today will bring. Update: No. We’re not home yet. We are still in Philadelphia and have been for the past 4 and ½ hours. When we arrived, our plane was supposedly on time. We made it through customs and a security line that took an hour and a half. We were sent to gate C26 and then to gate A26…which is where we found out (after rushing like mad people) that our plane was delayed by 2+ hours. By the time we get home we will have been traveling for over 24 hours again thanks to this shitty airline. We aren’t bitter. We ... read more

Day 16 Photos of our adventures After getting less than 5 hours of sleep, we rolled out of bed for our next journey, Rome. This time, not only was the train on time, it was actually early. At least our day was off to a positive start.  Neither of us were very happy though. I think after two strenuous days of physical activity, the last thing that we wanted to do was to walk around the streets of Rome. The fact that it was supposed to be 90 degrees that day was not helping to improve our morale any either. We decided to start off our adventures at the coliseum. The structure was impressive. We went with a guide who helped to dispel many of the myths that the movie The Gladiator had put ... read more

Day 14 Photos from our adventures Today we actually got up at a reasonable time. We were on a mission. We needed to secure our train tickets for the next two day’s adventures. We had to first figure out how to navigate the bus system in order to get to the train station. Unlike the U.S. and the other three countries we had visited, you could easily buy a ticket for the bus on the bus. For some reason in Italy, we just couldn’t figure it out. There were machines, but it didn’t take money. Some people got on and ran tickets through the machine, some just got on the bus and had a seat. What was the deal? I was a little panicked. As we sat on the bus, there was a screen that ... read more

Day 12 - Bon journo Italy! Photos of our adventures We arrived at our hotel at 7:30 in the morning. Apparently that was too early to check in. I must say, the man behind the desk wasn’t even the least bit sympathetic to our plight. He wasn’t even trying to work with us. So we decided to leave our luggage at the hotel and walk around the city for as long as we could. We were exhausted and we didn’t particularly care much where we were walking. We just knew that we needed to keep walking or we’d fall asleep. There didn’t seem to be too many places open at that early hour. I must say, first impression of Italy—not a real good one. The place is pretty dirty. It looks like people just throw ... read more

Day 9 (6/29) url="http://picasaweb.google.com/kosmatka/NiceFranceCoteDAzureDay4Chagall?authkey=Hh27c0jHThI" target="_blank"Photos from our adventures By now you may have discovered, that we have become experts in the art of sleeping in. It is both a relaxing feature of our trip and has enabled us to save money by not eating breakfast. ;-) However, if I had only known how unfortunate today’s lunch would have been, I think I would have continued to sleep until dinner time. After eating the most fantastic pizza yesterday, I decided that today would officially be declared “day of the pizza.” I would make the sacrifice of eating pizza for both lunch and dinner. (Don’t you wish all sacrifices were this difficult?) Since the pizza yesterday proved to be too big for one person, Michael decided he would split the pizza and a salad with me. I ... read more