Month: June 2005

Greve to Barcelona

Getting to the airport 6:00 am Got up after pressing snooze 2 or 3 times 7:00 am Taxi from Villa Vignamaggio to Greve SITA stop The taxi driver drove to a cafe to get change. When I offered a tip, he refused. Had to walk down to...

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San Gimignano and the wedding

Today was the day of the wedding, but we were hoping to squeeze in a quick trip to San Gimignano and make it back in time for the wedding. After breakfast and after going down and up and down and up we found Jon & Ago in the...

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Greve and Firenze (Florence)

We met Ago, Jon, and Boory at 8:15am. Ago drove us (Ago, GG, Boori, Jon, Nicole, and Marc) to Firenze. There was a tense moment as our car and another had a near collision on a blind curve. We missed our exit on the autostrada...

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Firenze/Greve/Villa Vignamaggio

Breakfast We had an early breakfast with Nicole's parents at Hotel Casci and then we checked out and had Paolo call us a taxi to take us to the SITA station. Bus to Greve We took the 9:30 SITA bus to Greve. On the bus I tried to...