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Anyone been to Italy?
Jeff Wrangler:
Welcome home! :D
ifyoucantfixit:
Seems like you had a wonderful trip, and took in most of the things you were looking for..
I suppose even getting lost in a city like Rome, or Venice can be rewarding...sounds like you had a great trip.
So glad you didn't get sick... :)
Kelda:
Welcome home!
Sounds like you had a real adventure!
I have some very similar pictures from my trip to Italy back in 02.
Penthesilea:
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Welcome back home! :-*
--- Quote ---I never got sick! :)
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Seems our mantras have worked. ;)
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Wonderful pictures, all of them. The above looks like a postcard.
--- Quote ---Despite the one thing I could not control and was a disappointment - the weather - it was a marvelous, life-perspective changing trip.
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At least you weren't supposed to control the weather, nobody got all over your behind for it. ;) ;D
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Glad to hear you had a wonderful time.
--- Quote ---I instantly got a couple of traditions going the minute I landed:
1) eating gelato in every city I was in
2) getting lost
In each city I was in, I spent on average 2 hours lost.
Italy, like France and England, put street signs on the corners of buildings. Unfortunately, especially in Italy, they don't tend to put them on EVERY street corner. You could walk a quarter mile before seeing a street sign and realizing you were on the wrong street.
So a lot of those hours were spent in frustration, precious touring time lost while being lost. But I did see some truly magical places while lost - a row of blooming orange trees on the Via Consular in Rome and almost anywhere on the islands of San Polo, Dorsoduro and Cannregio in Venice.
I also had adventures - missing trains, getting on wrong trains, getting ripped off by taxi drivers, bus ticket sellers and postage stamp sellers, not having a ride to catch my train (I didn't realize the Monday after Easter is a holiday in Italy) sitting in the warm sun in the square of the town of Pienza wondering how the heck I'm going to get to Siena to catch my train to Rome with no bus service in a town with no taxi drivers. Sitting on the train 15 minutes outside of Rome one evening while coming back from a day trip to Pompeii, wondering why we're not moving. Eerily, like my train trip to Chicago, they made announcements as to why we were stopped, but they didn't say them in English and no one in my class spoke English or Spanish. I understood 3 words "Person", "ambulance" and "50 minutes". So either the train hit someone who needed an ambulance or someone ON the train needed an ambulance. We sat on the track for 2 hours before making the final 15 minutes into Rome.
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All the little adventures and misadventures make traveling so rewarding, even if they can be frustrating at the time.
--- Quote ---I'll post more as I go through more of my pictures.
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Looking forward to more pics and stories!
WB again :)
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