Well, I bought 10 hours of multi-airport internet here and it keeps fucking logging me out even though I clearly haven't moved or gotten up or anything else. It's sort of maddening. Why am I paying for this?

... So much for trying to upload my photos from Lucca!!

Friday 2:53 pm
June 8th, 2007Well, I was hoping the airport here in Florence might have wifi so that I could burn time in between now and the point when I had to check in. My original flight was at 7pm, getting into Madrid at midnight, but thankfully, I was able to change flights while here and get in earlier at 11 pm. It still seems like an ( Read more... )

We went to go and see Michaelangelo's David yesterday, an undertaking that people queue AROUND the block for. Which is sort of funny when you consider that the entire gallery and pull of this one tiny museum is just this big marble man ( Read more... )

Wednesday 9:20 am
June 6th, 2007

There's this raw carnivory and lust of Italy that I've noticed, and I'm not talking about the prosciutto. Spitting does seem to be a part of it, though, because I can hear people hocking their loogeys from my apartment window ( Read more... )

Well, I got the Florence photos up. It's obviously slow, and they're not tagged really, or rotated, or uh, really anything, but enjoy them -- if I'm lucky I can make a set before my battery dies.

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Also, you'll have to log into flickr for any group photos (if I've friended you) because of the request of a member of our party :)

Tuesday 10:36 am
June 5th, 2007Driving through Italy has proven to be a wonderfully pleasant adventure -- even the night driving in Florence, the accidental foray down the one-way street, and the generally failure-ific capabilities of our GPS in narrow Firenze-ian streets ( Read more... )

Monday 9:08 am
June 4th, 2007Sure, we'd seen the Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") and wandered around most of the palazzos without actually seeing the Uffizi or the David, but we decided to head out into the countryside and see the little town of Siena ( Read more... )