Category Archives: trip-italia-2011

Florence, Italy

Wow, summer breezed by really fast!  I’ve been traveling and shooting photos, but I haven’t been keeping up with the travel blog.  Now that it’s cold and rainy, it’s time to go back to the blog.  Let me bring us back to Italy and recount our experience in Florence. Florence (Firenze) is the capital city

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Rome, Part Due

Let’s go back to Rome.  There’s so much to see and do in Rome, and you can’t easily cover it all in a single article.  In my previous Rome article, I covered the major landmarks in central Rome, located on the east bank of the Tiber River.  Now we’ll talk about the west bank.  The

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Italia, here we come! Trip preview

Well, it’s about that time – time to travel the world again!  This trip’s destination is Italy.  I’m leaving later today.  There’s a nice-sized crew of us going – seven people, converging from Chicago, Detroit, and DC! Although I already went there in 2006, you can usually count on Italy for great culture, food, and

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