Monday we headed to Cinque Terre which is a Unesco world heritage site. Five villages on the coast of the Liguran sea. Amazing. We took the train there which is awesome. I think the train from Massa to Cinque Terre and the train through the villages cost me something crazy cheap like seven euro. I couldn't believe it. Anyway, the whole thing was ( Read more... )

I'm going to preface this by saying that we lost the pictures from Pisa. There was a picture of me holding the leaning tower but it has been lost. What a shame ( Read more... )

Saturday morning we got up to go to the beach. Of course, there was one problem, I forgot my sunscreen in Munich and was facing a thirty degree day...great. So, Ale being forever helpful, and in an effort to save me money, called his aunt who apparently had some (because Italians don't actually own sunscreen, ever) and we drove over there only to ( Read more... )

The drive to Ale's town of Massa on the west coast from Florence was amazing. Unbelievable scenery the entire way. It was so good to see Ale again. I really missed him, and for a lot of reasons we weren't able to see each other that much when we were in England so I was looking forward to spending this time with him ( Read more... )

There's a certain anti-climax to all of this because I am at home right now. However, I've come back from Italy with a whole new appreciation of life and some interesting stories which I'm sure you will all enjoy, complete with pictures ( Read more... )

So it was my first time in Stuttgart on Wednesday and I was really nervous because I had to get up and get to the train station, and get on the right train. I was panicking so I didn't really sleep well but it ended up fine obviously... :P ( Read more... )

Well, since it was Gesa's last full day on Monday we hit the city centre and did a whole lot of walking. It was great though and we had a lot of fun. We sat in the Englischer Garten, the largest inner city park in the world and it was beautiful. We've been having absolutely incredible weather and I'm waiting for my sunburns to disappear :P ( Read more... )

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I know I said that I would talk more about my trip to Germany but everyone who reads this can ask about it anytime now that I'm home ( Read more... )