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Wed, 12 May 2010 | By kashikoi | Views [665]
이탈리에 와서는 한번도 박스에 들어있는 음식을 먹어본적이 없다...비록 7일 밖에 안됬지만 기운이 넘친다..가는 곳마다 시장을 들려서 철과일과 야채를 사는 재미에 푹빠졌다. 안되는 이탈리언어 보다는 집념이 보여서인지 상인들이 굉장히친절하다. 맛보고 "molto bene" 아주 좋다..."quanto" 얼마냐..."un poco" 조금만...제일많이 쓴다. 오늘 은 피렌체 새벽시장에 부지런 ... Read more >
Tue, 11 May 2010 | By kashikoi | Views [503]
If anyone has read Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes, as have all the women I have met and liked during this trip to Italy, then you will know about fava beans and pecorino. Having read this and planning to be in Tuscany in the springtime I naturally wanted ... Read more >
Tue, 11 May 2010 | By kashikoi | Views [860]
Rome will always be my first love, but Florence has a quaint charm that is also unique and delightful. This completely walkable city was mastered in a day and revolves around the Duomo. A large cathedral, that before the construction of St. Peters in ... Read more >
Tags: shopping, sights
Mon, 10 May 2010 | By kashikoi | Photo Gallery
The home of the Renaissance
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Sat, 8 May 2010 | By kashikoi | Photo Gallery
Ha...it was suppose to be raining
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Sat, 8 May 2010 | By kashikoi | Views [406]
This plan of starting in the middle (Rome) going down and going back north in the same day really seemed perfect in theory...I just forgot that I would be the one doing it in practice. Woke up at 4:30am from nerves not wanting to be late to validate ... Read more >
Fri, 7 May 2010 | By kashikoi | Photo Gallery
Various in and out of focus shots of my time here in Rome
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Thu, 6 May 2010 | By huw-and-rose | Views [676]
Kerouac once wrote, “Why travel if not like
a child?” I used to value that, to hold it forward in my mind as I moved around
the world. Now, too often, I travel like a child sat bored in the back of a car
in a traffic jam with nothing but a completed ... Read more >
Thu, 6 May 2010 | By huw-and-rose | Views [2273] | Comments [1]
We didn't buy one before we left. I had been
told to get one, told that carrying one would be a good idea because,
"even though you might hope you don't need it, you'll be glad you have it
if you do." But it was just one more thing to ... Read more >
Thu, 6 May 2010 | By huw-and-rose | Views [573]
Our beloved truck underwent some serious home
improvements back in Stiava, three weeks ago. We sorted the overheating. We'd arrived in Italy with
a mysterious but serious problem: every hill climb hoiked up the water
temperature to almost boiling ... Read more >
Thu, 6 May 2010 | By huw-and-rose | Views [937]
In Stiava, a sleepy Tuscan village just inland from swanky Viareggio where the beautiful people promenade along the Pasajate, Huw's old friend Jonathan Martinelli and his family welcomed us into their homes and into their lives. The Martinellis have ... Read more >
Thu, 6 May 2010 | By kashikoi | Views [294]
In a tradition of sorts Rome has yielded up a great traveling companion and kindred spirit in the form of a dorm mate at my peaceful hostel. There was a thunderstorm last night and it has washed the air, and the sky is blue, blue, blue despite small showers ... Read more >
Wed, 5 May 2010 | By kashikoi | Views [413]
Both legs of the trip were uneventful, save for the turbulence, which makes every control freak, especially one gifted with a fatalistic sense of humor, curl their toes. It was almost even blessed as a single traveler the perfect seatmate is courteous, ... Read more >
Tags: flight, hostel
Tue, 4 May 2010 | By stacey_myst | Photo Gallery
Vatican City
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Tue, 4 May 2010 | By stacey_myst | Views [339]
So I arrived in Rome on May Day, which happens to be one of the most important holidays in Italy. The place was PACKED. I went to the Pantheon, and it was a sea of people. The streets everywhere were swarming. The day I went to the Vatican Museum, ... Read more >
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