Just point to the chianti…
2:44am 10/19/07 So here I sit in my Florentine hotel room at Hotel Mario’s on the Via Faenza – a little private suite of my own, in fact, as the room we’ve been given has 2 separate bedrooms (tiny...
View ArticleHell’s Stairmaster and Fiery Popcorn
1:24am 10/20/07 Had a leisurely day, by Florentine standards. That is, if you don’t count the 375739329475602 miles we walked. Katie had meetings today also, but only for the first part of the day, so...
View ArticleArt is for kids who like books with pictures
1:28am 10/21/07 An unexpectedly successful day in Florence, despite some patchy cloudiness, biting chill (!) and gusty wind. Schwing! What I’ve come to love about Hotel Mario’s is how tiny it is…both...
View ArticleRoman Holiday
11:14pm 10/22/07 If I only had a dime for every church I go into when I visit Europe…well, I’d have a LOT of dimes. Arrived in a sunny, crisply cool Rome yesterday after a great train ride (in first...
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10/25/07 12:55am Today Katie had most of the day off (yay!) and it was another unexpectedly gorgeous day, especially welcome since they had been calling for rain the entire day and we woke up to blue...
View ArticleAn Italian birthday
10/26/07 Ihavenoideawhattimeitis….(somewhere over Ireland) Well here I am on the plane home…I can’t believe it’s over already! But I’ll get to that in a bit… Our last day in Rome was drizzly and wet...
View ArticleHow To See Rome in a Day (warning: not for the faint of heart!)
They say Rome wasn’t built in a day. (I can see why). But you can see a whole lot in less than 24 hours…from the best of museums, architecture, cathedrals, monuments and restaurants you’ll get a taste...
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Spirito DiVino – Rome, Italy
Originally posted on ThingsYouShouldDo.com as a guest article, 9/09 Italian food is arguably one of the most popular – and misused – cuisines in the world. So no matter what a guidebook recommends or...
View Article9 Things To Love About Venice
Venice devotees are a dime a dozen, but what is it about the city that causes some to go so far as to brand ourselves “Venetophiles?” What stardust did the city sprinkle on us (or was it pigeon...
View ArticleEurochocolate Festival, Perugia – Una Gustosa Festa
There are lots of things you go to Italy for. Cappuccinos. Wine. Great bolognese. Smooth-talking men. But chocolate? I’d always reserved that for the Belgians, the Swiss and possibly the French,...
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