Shay has graciously spent hours today uploading our full picture set from Italy. Check it out: http://picasaweb.google.com/shaywade.
She wanted me to plug her blog too.

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So we’re heading back to NYC tomorrow, back to the cold. Life at the Hotel Diplomatic has been pretty good, we’ve slept and ate more than anything.There is still only one fulltime English channel on TV, CNN International, which shows the same news in a loop every 15 minutes. Not that its annoying, or anything. [...]

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So we had a nice day today. We took a day trip from Florence today, about 50 miles south to Siena. It was a great
day for a stroll down small, cobblestoned streets in a town that does not allow cars in its town center. We had a nice time walking around, seeing the town square [...]

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So I haven’t written a note in a few days. I feel like I’ve short changed everyone with short notes the last few times. So this is me catching up.
Venice was really nice and calm. There weren’t any crazy people hawking umbrellas and following us down the street trying to get us to buy something. [...]

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So we just rolled into the beautiful Santa Maria Novella train station in downtown Florence. It is lovely here - we just checked into the hotel Leonardo Da Vinci. (probably no relation to the actor)
We had a nice time in Venice, the Carnevale was pretty cool. The bulk of the action we saw took place [...]

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Not much to report for sights today, as it is laundry day. Tomorrow we’re taking the train to Venice for the weekend, so we’re tying up loose ends today. I figured it was as good a time as any to share some idiosynchracies of our week here. There was:

The guy in room 6 who saw [...]

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Tom, your faithful travel correspondant here. When we last left off, we were relaxing after the Vatican Museum. We were hoping to catch a movie, and noticed a theater in Piazza Cavour, nearby to the hotel. We headed over, but alas, no movies in English, or with English subtitles. And my Italian, is well, terrible. [...]

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Hello everyone-
Shay, Baby and I arrived at the airport in Rome around 8am local time Sunday. We got in a “shuttle bus” that looked a lot like some dude’s car, and drove to the hotel Ara Pacis very close to the center of Rome.
The plan was to get tickets to the local pro soccer game, [...]

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