Looking up to our Room #5

This is the best room in the place. It has this great balcony overlooking the entire courtyard and convent next door. The balcony provided a great place to journal in the late hours before bed with all the fragrances of this garden wafting through the air.

EuroTraveler Boards the Train To Tuscany and the Hotel Monna Lisa!

January 4th 2009
I am so excited to be writing about Tuscany. Now that I have shared some of our Roman holiday memories and now that the winter Holidays are coming to end, it's time for me to get back to telling more tales of our journey in Europe. This time it's off to Tuscany and I have so much so share with you! Overall, we were in Florence for 6 days and explored most of the architecture and fine art in the bi ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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