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Italy Day Two: Siena and Florence
So, Siena had fought with Florence for many years. According to Rick Steves, Florence won and became the birthplace of the Renaissance, and Siena was pickled in its medieval setting. We absolutely loved our hotel Albergo Bernini in Siena. We got sold on the reasonable price and terrace with beautiful view to enjoy cappuccino or some gelato. Oh ( Read more... ) -
Italy Day One: Pisa and Siena
So, Cy and I first went to Italy about 5 years ago with Ceida, and we just fell in love with it. Okay, it was mostly the food but the art and history, too. After seeing Rome, I knew we had to see more. Despite the weakening dollar, we decided to go again before we got too old to climb all those stairs! So, with Cy going to California for the ( Read more... ) -
and we're back!
cy said it was cheaper for us to fly from gatwick to dublin to heathrow to boston, so that's what we did yesterday. amazingly, all our flights were relatively on time, so there were only minor hiccups along the way (had to check our bags because london airports only allow one carryon, went through extra security because we had been on a farm ( Read more... ) -
always look on the bright side of life!
wow, tonight is our last night in london, and cy and i had a wonderful day. we took the tube over to the west end to get theater tickets and wound up with our first choice--spamalot!. we spent 3 hours taking the rick steves' tour of the britism museum. those brits had a big empire at one point, and they have the artifacts to prove it. some dude ( Read more... ) -
hello from london (part 2)
hi everyone! i'm back waiting for cy to wake up yet again. i can't blame the poor boy. we had a pretty hectic day ( Read more... ) -
Hello from London!
You guys know I couldn't resist posting at least once during our vacation, right? I was going to skip it this time, but our hotel in London has free internet access. It was a sign ( Read more... ) -
vegas weddings rock!
i don't know how cy and i had never been to vegas before last year, and now we've been twice in the span of five months for two different weddings!
time is short, so i'll cut to the chase. the wedding was beautiful, the couple was glowing, and fun was had by all! pictures say it so much better, no?
click here for all of them!
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eating locally
just finished reading the omnivore's dilemma by michael pollan, and cy pointed out that enhat had written a post about the book and its concepts that i had somehow missed. i'm not eloquent enough to go through the excellent points that the author made, but here was my thought process while reading about the journey of food to my plate ( Read more... ) -
the last five minutes
*** CONTAINS GREY'S ANATOMY SPOILERS ( Read more... )
