it's raining and i'm very excited about that. i have to go into work tomorrow (instead of getting an extra hour of sleep and being able to work from home) and i'm not excited about that. altho my sense of time is off because monday was a holiday, so i'll probably think it's thursday anyway
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I haven't been to Lake Como or the mountains, maybe one day. I went to Verona when I was 16, always wanted to revisit. Siena is lovely, been there a couple of times, and of course, Florence and Venice are must sees - though I'd recommend doing Venice in the winter because in the summer it's HEAVING. Mind you, if you wander the back streets instead of hanging round the main tourist bits, it's not so bad.
My friend and I had a few days in Cinque Terre - it's just as pretty as the pictures and you can walk from one town to the next - if you're fit! Lots and lots of steps up hill and downhill - so you don't actually travel far in terms of a-b but do many kilometres up and down! The views are worth it though.
Italy has a good train service to virtually everywhere - one year we flew to Bologna, got the train to Ravenna then went back to visit Bologna itself, got the train to Rome for JIB 😂. It's pretty reasonably priced too, and you don't need to book in advance. But I'm assuming you're on some sort of curated tour, so you probably won't have time to do anything like that.
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oooh, ravenna. there's some nice early-christianity mosaics there that i want to see. some day!
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Yes! That was my main reason for wanting to visit Ravenna and the mosaics did not disappoint - so fabulous! I love that period anyway - early medieval. There's a ton of it in Rome too, my faves. Lots of 4th-9th c mosaics.
I admit, I did use the stair climb machine in the gym for a couple of months before Cinque Terre. It definitely helped!
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