Italy

Tim’s Trip to Italy: 

Tim’s Trip to Italy

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Due to snow in Boston I missed my flight in France, but AirFrance rescheduled my flight and gave me a free meal at the Airport, so that was nice of them.

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Paris, Charles De Gaul Airport

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This is me skiing in the French Alps.

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Finally landed in Pisa Everything in Pisa is crooked

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After a nice long, unexpected train ride I find myself at my final destination: Florence, mopeds galore. This is Manda’s street. Cobblestone, as you can see, one way, and the sidewalk gets wide or really narrow as it sees fit.

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We left for Rome right away and this is the hotel that we stayed in. The doorknob didn’t turn.

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I thought this kind of looked like the Colluseum so I took a picture. Oh wait.. It is.

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I had to snipe these ancient Roman dudes from afar because they charge you to take pictures.

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An archway at the Colluseum, soaking up the sun.

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Italy has lots of these Lots of these Lots of these Lots of these And lots of these

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Ancient Roman Cocoa Crispies My continental Roman breakfast at the hotel. If anyone tells you Nutella doesn’t go well on salami, they’re right.

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This was a church in Rome. This stuff is enormous.

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A pretty cool looking fountain/monument/statue near the church in Rome.

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Hey she’s cute…

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Government building with bronze statue, number 1402. The statues pretty incredible. They are everywhere!!

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Italian wind It was mighty windy, but still awfully sunny and gorgeous.

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The popes steps The Popes guards

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Not a great picture, but this guy was the bomb. And he stands right above the entrance to the Crypt at Saint Peters Basillica

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A Popes tomb Not a Pope

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This was taken from the cupola at the top of the Popes house. Not sure what the building is, but it looks cool.

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You have to pay to use public restrooms in Italy

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“The Forum” Central ancient Rome. It’s all ruined now though.

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I really wish this guy would stop taking pictures of me…

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Beautiful weather everywhere! The sun is going down over some cool looking buildings at the Forum, you can’t tell, but it’s pretty.

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Pretty sweet looking government building

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Trevi Fountain You have to throw a coin over your right shoulder into it. Why right shoulder? Not sure, but I did it anyway cause I’m a tourist.

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This is Fiesole Ancient Etruscan ruins of a theater with an awesome view.

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Afore mentioned “awesome view”

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If you fall you will hit your head and break your arm.

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I think they really want you to know Ancient Roman baths at Fiesole

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Just above the theater there’s a tower… Man I miss that weather.

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Man oh man, who’s that guy doing a handstand on that rock wall?? And who’s the guy doing the cool Roman pose on the protruding rock?

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This is back in Florence, and the “Duomo” It was dark in here, sorry, but it’s a 24-hour clock that starts at the bottom.

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Scooters as far as the eye can see. You can’t see the Arno River but it’s right on the other side of the wall.

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Well, this is Piazza del Michealangelo and you can see all of Florence from here, but not in this picture…

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Ah, there it is. And there is the sunset that happened about 10 minutes before we managed to hike to the top of the deceivingly enormous hill that we were on.

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Doing a little exploring while Manda was in class I found the entrance to the Boboli gardens and another museum that I forget the name of.

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A nice pan of the Arno River below, and the name of the cool looking bridge is the Ponte Vecchio We ate at the Golden View restaurant a couple times, which is the building to the right of the yellow one. They had great pizza and live music

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A little market place near the river, there were always painters doing portraits of tourists along the sides, and performers playing guitars and accordians.

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Maybe, but I have a horse, AND I’m wearing clothes! I am a rock star

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I don’t know what it is, but I want one…

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Due to my large Italian eye infection, the lady at a sandwich shop directed us to the hospital and told me to get a prescription for some eye cream. After about 45 minutes of walking and asking pharmacists and other hospital-looking places, this is what we found…

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Ah yes, the extremely busy, well-lit Italian hospital. You take a ticket and wait to be called, just like at the deli.

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Florence’s city gates Enter HERE

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This is Sienna, where Manda hung out for the first few weeks she was in Italy. They actually have horse races in this little piazza every year…

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Sienna is on a hill, so everywhere you go, you climb.

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Man on scooter, Number: 5,819,182,724

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These people love their Heiniken…

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See you later Italy! Actually I think this is France, but you get the idea, I’m going home. Big war starting today, but don’t worry, I made it safely home to the rain, and the fresh Boston air… We were in a Boeing 777, cruised at a cool 30,000 ft. (5.6 miles), at somewhere around 550 mph. I know this because there was an awesome touch screen panel that gave us all that information on the plane!