My friend Michelle was in Italy this summer to take a class in florence. She had stopped by in Milan, so we met up, and I also went to go see her in florence. and in july florence is HOT... i think it was like 30-35 degrees celsius. we also wanted to go outlet shopping, also in italy everything goes on sale in july. needless to say we were roasting in the tuscan hills where the outlets were. I had wanted to go to the top of the duomo (main cathedral) in florence, but it was stairs only and it was [View Full Entry]

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"Sto morendo dalla voglia di andare a Londra.." That's what I said to my italian room mate: I'm dying to go to London.. Ok in all honesty I was studying abroad in Italy, and my student visa was about to expire, and I wanted to stay longer. For some reason, my school wouldn't let me extend my program. So I had to find another way out. I had asked at the american consulate in Milan, and they said that if i wanted to leave and come back as a tourist, i would have to leave the EU. (ok i know that [View Full Entry]

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My friend Vanessa used to talk about all the time, about how often she goes to zurich. my friend tanya and i were fascinated and were curious to go; neither of us having been in switzerland. we were quite lucky b.c vanessa's dad works for the train system in switzerland, so we were able to get some discounted tickets to go to zurich. vanessa invited us to stay over her house in chiasso, and we would get up at like 5:00 in the morning for the 4 hour train ride to zurich. we had passed along some really beautiful things on [View Full Entry]

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I had asked my friend stephanie, if she wanted to take a trip down to Rome. It was a really cool trip, b.c i had never spent the night there. i had been to rome 2 years before, but only during the day. it was a really cool trip b.c we had spent the day sightseeing, and the night at a roman club. we bought tickets for the double decker tour buses, for 2 days. unfortunately the 2nd day it RAINED all day long.. also we had dinner in piazza navona, which was nice to sit outside and eat.. and see [View Full Entry]

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San francisco is 1 of my favorite places in the US. I had gone to SF for a weekend with my parents, for none of us had really been there before. (except for my dad, who had passed through many years ago when he was a teenager) it is so BEAUTIFUL. Not all the cities in the world have a great combination of being urban but yet so close to great nature. There are several beautiful beaches in and around the SF area, some with great views of the city and the golden gate bridge. also just north of the city [View Full Entry]

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