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June 02, 2005
More on Italy
I've posted about 1/3 of the photos from the trip on my gallery, for those of you who are bored or interested. We flew from Atlanta to Madrid and from Madrid to Rome. This meant that instead of arriving in Rome in the morning we didn't get in until around 4:30. Luckily this didn't really matter much to us as Heather has sent us a driver to pick us up. It was significantly cheaper than a taxi and not all that much more than the train-bus rides to Heather's house.
When we arrived Heather & Henry had not yet returned from work, and we had a very interesting altercation with their new porter, who did not like the look of us at all. Not to worry though we only had to wait about 10 minutes until they showed up. They have an absolutely amazing apartment just north of the Borghese park. It was fully stocked with American goodies thanks to the wonders of the embassy commisary.
We spent 3 days in Rome. The first day we did the Vatican. Museum in the morning (while it rained) and St. Peter's in the afternoon. As you can see we even decided to climb to the top of the cupola (dome). The next day we did the Caesar Shuffel seeing the Palatine hill, the forum, the Coloseum, and the Pantheon. It was at lunch that we discovered that we were in the middle of culture week in which all of the museums and cultural sights were free to the public. So that afternoon we went over to the National Archeological Museum (next to the train station) to look at the mosaics and frescos. The final day in Rome we visited the Borghese gallery. We had planned to take an afternoon train to Cortona, but due to a public transit strike from 8:30-4:30 we didn't get out of the city until later that evening.
We arrived in Cortona about 7:30pm, just in time to check into to the hostel and go to dinner. The guy running the hostel was kind of shady and was definitely holding down two jobs. So after climbing a rather steep hill to get to the hostel we had to wait about 20 minutes for him to show up. To add to the counts against him he told us the wrong time for breakfast and lied to us that the TI would hold our bags. Luckily the TI ladies took pity on us and let us store the bags with them anyway (after calling and yelling at the guy). More to come tomorrow.
Posted by kfeigh at June 2, 2005 09:16 AM
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More photos!!
Posted by: Sarah at June 2, 2005 10:57 AM