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Published: April 14th 2009
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Tower #3
Our first one visited. Oh, San Marino. Since Michael had worked a week less than I had and was spending his last two weeks doing a microstate tour, we had to go to San Marino while we were in Italy. He had already been to Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, and of course Vatican City.
Not surprisingly, there’s really not a whole lot to do in San Marino. It’s a very tiny country with a population of only about 30,000. It is, though, up on a beautiful mountain and has three famous towers that you can hike to. Michael was very excited about these towers, but forgot to mention how much hiking would be involved in getting to them. Thus, he forgot to tell me it probably wouldn’t be a very good idea to wear a dress that day. Luckily though, I had tights and boots on and as warm as it was up on the mountain, I was glad I was wearing what I had on.
As soon as we got into San Marino we dropped our stuff off at our 3-star hotel and headed up to the towers. The hike was gorgeous and you could see all the way to the ocean from
the top. Though we went in reverse order, we spent the afternoon hiking from one tower to the other and up one tower and down to the next. It was great. Lots and lots of photo ops.
After we visited each of the towers, Michael wanted to go down into the other San Marenese towns to take a picture of the three towers from the bottom of the hill. If you’re not driving, there’s not really a great pathway down the mountain, or at least not one we could find. We took a lift down part of the way, but to get just the right picture, Michael made us walk for about 30 more minutes. This did not make me very happy, but he promised to buy me gelato if I would keep going with him to find the perfect picture (though he never did - find the perfect picture or get me gelato).
We got back to the top of the mountain where we were staying and went to chill out at the hotel for a little while. There wasn’t a whole lot else to do in San Marino since we had already seen each of the
three towers. There was the Curiosity Museum and the Reptile Gardens, but I quickly nixed those two ideas. 😉
There was hardly even anything open for dinner that night, but Michael and I finally found a very nice San Marenese who happily led us into his restaurant where we ate canolli, foie gras, and tiramisu. We debated how much the bill was going to be, but it was surprisingly very cheap for everything we had gotten. Then we stressed over the etiquette of tipping in San Marino and whether we were supposed to leave anything or not.
The next day we walked around San Marino a little more and then got on a train to Venice. Our last stop and final destination before we made our way back to Brussels to come back the U.S.
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