Published February 20th, 2007
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We got off of the train and had to find our rental car, still sick and unable to propel my own limbs, this was the longest hour of my life. I sat laid on the floor next to the rental station while my family moved like icebergs trying to arrange our car. Now keep in [...]
Published January 27th, 2007
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We visited this place because we had some extra time and one of Ryan’s friends highly recommended it. It’s basically 5 little towns, each one a preserve and maintained by volunteers. You take a train in to the first city and then you bought a pass to walk and or ride a train to each [...]
Published January 4th, 2007
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The Next stop was Florence, Italy. Known for it’s museums of sculptures and paintings, we naturally did none of these. Most of our time was spent just exploring different shops and walking around. My dad got sick in Rome and by Florence, had passed it along to my mom and my little brother. The [...]
Published December 28th, 2006
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Day 1 in Rome was spent exploring the ancient parts of the city. Although the entire city is incredibly old, the ancient parts include the coliseum, monuments, burial sites, and various building. Most of these parts where entirely underground until about 200 years ago and are as old as 2500 years. It was very hard [...]
Published December 22nd, 2006
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This was on the train from Geneva, Switzerland to Venice, Italy, traveling along Lake Geneva.
Here we are trying to find our hotel. It was in an alley that we could barely fit our bags into. I had to bust out the MacBook so we could find it. The offices were in one building and the [...]
Published December 20th, 2006
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So far our trip has gone off without a hitch. We left our house at 9am yesterday morning (11/30/06). My brother’s fiancée drove us to the airport. Our flight left Cleveland at11:30am headed for new jersey. There we had a 4-hour layover where I slept and my parents watched a movie. The plane for Geneva [...]