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Exploring: Getting Lost (Literally) in Venice, Italy

This travel journal details both the fascination and confusion brought on by one of the world's great cities: Venice, Italy.

Exploring: Florence, Italy

“The Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!” -Mark Twain, “The Innocents Abroad”* In lieu of a “Welcome” sign, your arrival...

Exploring: San Gimignano and Tuscan Wine Tasting

We start the day in Siena with a continental breakfast – the standard, uninspired fare of hardboiled eggs, cold cuts, cheese, bread....

Exploring: Intro to Tuscany / Destination Siena

“Tuscany looks like what all of Italy should look like.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (attributed) We stare out the train window as the...

Exploring: Pompeii and Naples, Italy

This post details a day trip to Naples and Pompeii from Rome, during our summer excursion through Italy.

Exploring: Travel Blog Intro / Rome, Italy

This post details the Rome portion of our summer travels through Italy.

Visiting Florence (Where’s the Machine?)

The walls that enclose the rail line are covered with graffiti, and the train terminal feels grimy and is filled with a lot of...

Siena and the Towers of San Gimignano

Siena is such a confusing place, initially, when arriving by rail. You walk out the front door of the train station, and all you see in...

Naples, Italy in Review

Naples could use some work… some oversight… maybe a good scrubbing with lots of bleach. I was told by a colleague that it’s “not a place...

Italy in Cursive

Staring out the window at a beautiful countryside. Bellissimo. Old castles are perched atop hills, slowly becoming one with the land....

In Rome, Trying to Avoid Saying “When in Rome…”

The plane has landed. Finally! This is my first trip to Italy, and the last time I was in Europe at all was when I was one year old… so...

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