Firenze Flea Market

We looked everywhere; nobody was selling fleas!

September 30th 2006
Today is Saturday and we need to get to the other side of Firenze to meet some of the other people we will share this Culinary Week with. There is a piazza near their hotel from which we all will be picked up at 11 AM. If it were just the two of us with backpacks, that would be do-able on foot. However, we have these suitcases with rollers, we yank around by handles. Afer looking out the hote ... 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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Pat and Ann

"People don't take trips - trips take people." -John Steinbeck Pat finally graduated, and we are ready to end the vacation drought. Join our adventure as Italy takes us on a trip through a culinary week in historic Lucca, pesto lunch on the Cinque Terre, the canals of Venezia, ski boot manufacturing in Montebelluna, the beauty of Cernobbio on Lago di Como, roller coaster bus rides along the Amalfi Coast, and the Seven Hills of Roma. In between will be lots of opportunities for misadventure as we navigate the Italian rail system. Guaranteed, "the only way to be sure of catching a train ... full info

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