Monday, September 14, 2009

First of many epic weekends to come.

Buona serra, tutti!

I hope everyone had a good weekend, because I know I sure did!

A few of my roommates and a bunch of other people in my program took off for a trip down the amalfi coast to capri and pompeii, but in order to save money for future travels, and in order to get better acclimated in florence, my friends and I decided to stay here and explore all the city has to offer. I could not be more glad with our decision because it turned out to be a fun weekend for everyone!

Friday was spent relaxing and buying books for classes, and since we had had a great night out on the town the night before, we (me and my friends erica, christine, and jess) decided to stay in, cook a nice meal, and plan our future travels. We must really be getting the hang of living in italia and cooking for ourselves, because we managed to scrape together the last contents of our colective refrigerators and cook a scrumptious meal of balsamic+garlic marinated chicken, pasta with a white wine/garlic sauce (yes dad, a-white-a-whine-a-garlica-saucea.), and nutella fondue for desert!

While we ate, we talked about where we all want to travel this semester and luckily we were all pretty much in agreement of our ideal locations. While in a perfect world we would go to every country in Europe, we are unfortunately prevented from doing so due to time restraints and the fact that we still have to save money for things such as oh, ya know, food.

However, we planned our fall break and it looks to be very exciting, with trips to Dublin, Galway, Barcelona, Madrid, and Paris. 5 cities and 3 countries in one week should be tiring, but it will sure as hell be worth it. In addition to fall break, we have penciled in tentative trips to switzerland, greece, austria, germany, and perhaps prague. Whether we actually accomplish these trips are beyond us, however. We also all left plenty of time to be in our home city of Firenze for friends and family to come visit, which will be significantly easier on the wallet but just as fun!

The next day we took a city bus to Fiesole, which is an old, walled town on the hills around florence that overlooks the entire city. It was absolutely beautiful, relatively free of tourists, and a very inexpensive way to have a fun day trip. Check my photo website for pictures of Fiesole as well as some new shots of day-to-day life around the city.

I am working on posting pictures directly to this blog so that you 3 readers I have don't have to constantly check both websites, but for now, you will have to deal with my technilogical ineptitude. This is a rather long post so I will have to cut it short here.

Ciao!
Liz

2 comments:

  1. you better add my name to your blog. i will be living vicariously through you! i miss living in Europe and travelling everywhere!!
    sounds like you are having fun. take advantage of every opportunity you have while your there!

    HAVE FUN!

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  2. I was not a fan of Paris, but you can't be over there and not go! I liked Madrid, but I hear Barcelona is better so if you have to sacrifice one I's suggest Madrid - I think M&L would agree. Switzerland is amazing, and I wish I had seen Austria. Germany was also beautiful, but it's a culture shock compared to Italia. No matter what you do keep sharing the pics - love looking at them! Enjoy!

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