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The farm stay
Yesterday we drove a whole five and a half hours to get to our next house. As we were driving we crossed the border between Italy
and Austria
. After this long journey we arrived at the farm. The owner’s were really nice and they showed us their animals. This farm had around thirty cows
! They also […]
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Dude, where is my bidet?
The second little toilet that came in all our Italy houses looked like this: When we first got here I scoffed and laughed: “how trite”. “That is for other people”. But as time went on curiosity got to me. “Hmmm. Maybe it’s not so bad?” “When in Rome…”. I also remembered we had these babies […]
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Lucca
After hitting the books hard the last few days on our sunny balcony we enjoyed a field trip to Lucca, a charming Tuscan town completely encircled by an impressively thick wall that is completely intact. Amazingly, the city hasn’t been involved in a war since 1430 and really doesn’t have any claim to fame other […]
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Hot spring
We went to a hot spring on our way to our hotel! The hot spring was so warm and there were pebbles on the shallow ground inside the hot spring. I thought it would smell like rotten eggs but, it just smelled like hard boiled eggs. I imagined it smelled a lot worse. The Romans […]
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Pisa
Watch out below! That is what I thought when we saw the leaning tower of Pisa today! When we arrived we wanted to go to the top but it was sixteen euros
. My dad thought that the tower would not lean so much, but it was really leaning. Dad took a picture of each of […]
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Cities on Cliffs
This weekend we left for the Italian countryside. On our way, we stopped at a medieval town. Just outside was a humongous statue of a guy stuck in the ground, except it was really just a pair of arms and legs with a head sticking out of the ground. We had fun climbing on top […]
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Italian countryside
Yesterday we had our first taste of the Italian countryside. Filled with rolling green hills, lakes, sheep, vineyards, olive trees, and occasional medieval towns, it seems entirely likely that a magical unicorn or hidden fairy kingdom will appear around any bend. Our first stop was a medieval town named Viterbo about an hour north of […]
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Last adventure in Rome
Michelangelo Moses check out the horns. Guess it’s hard to see from this pic. Tru liked this color door Anne found her perfect scooter Moses fountain with lions!Santa Theresa in ecstasy by Bernini and Neptune fountain before we went home.
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Last day in Rome
Tomorrow we are packing our bags and heading to Montefiascone, where we will see a castle and stay for a day or two, admiring the Italian countryside. While all that sounds wonderful, we are all dreading scouring our Airbnb for all the things we’ve probably lost over the past weeks. And of course we will […]
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Aqueduct park
Today we explored aqueduct park. When we arrived, I was dying to get out of our car, also known as the can go. Who knew I got car sick? Once I jumped out of the car I started to feel better. We started to walk along the trail and saw the ruins of the aqueduct. […]