Author: Marc

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...

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Firenze and Bologna

We dropped off a bag of clothes for laundering by Hotel Casci. The price is reasonable and it's convenient and that way you don't need to bring as many clothes. We had our usual breakfast and after breakfast we asked Paulo (the...

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Firenze (Florence)

We've been in Firenze (Florence) for a few days and tomorrow we're off to Greve in Chianti to the Villa for Andy's wedding. For some reason, my VersaCharger for my Treo 650 burnt up (even though it's dual voltage and worked in...

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Firenze and Lucca

The food market In Florence, we took Nicole's parents to see the amazing, huge indoor food market at Piazza del Mercato Centrale. This place is amazing - meat, produce, and seafood everywhere, and the biggest wheels of parmigiano...

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Sorrento to Firenze (Florence)

A long day... We were very good and got up early so that we could have breakfast and make the 9:07 Circumvesuviana train from Sorrento to Napoli (Naples). We made it and arrived in Naples at around 10:07 with plenty of time to...

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Day trip to Pompei

This was the day that we planned to go to Pompei. It almost didn't happen. We walked over to the Sorrento Circumvesuviana train station, ready to buy tickets to Pompei Scavi (Pompei Excavations). Note, you want Pompei Scavi, not...