In response to a call for updates from the study abroad program at the University of Colorado – In January of 2005, I followed three other students through an arch-covered ally, rolling my large suitcase down the crumbling stone steps that led to our new apartment on Via de Aquila, Perugia, Italia. Two of my [...]
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Via de Aquila
Posted in Italy, Travel, tagged Italy, study abroad, Travel on December 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Travel Tips for Italy
Posted in Italy on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am spending part of my Christmas break trying to decrease the number of emails in my gmail inbox to below 3000. Anyway, I ran into this old email about traveling in Italy. Since I still get asked for Italian travel tips occasionally, I thought I would post it here. If you are planning your [...]
Ciao Ciao Italia, Hag Sameach, una bella passagiata, il giorno di Liberta
Posted in Italy, Travel on April 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I am leaving Italy in about two weeks. I am sure that big cars on big streets driving to big supermarkets will all be migraine inducing when I return home, yet, over the past couple of weeks, something completely unexpected has happened. I have begun to look forward to going home. While this may have [...]
El Papa e morto
Posted in Italy, Travel on April 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
As we were standing at a bar in Sardegna, on the 10th day of our spring break trip, we saw a newspaper and the headline read that the pope was gravely ill. We were surprised that we hadn’t heard about that yet, then as we dug through the stack of newspapers we realized that not [...]
La Vacanza di primavera
Posted in Italy, Travel on April 9, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
We had ten days off school for Spring Break. My roommate, Crissy, and I took 12 days and went on a mini-tour of Europe. We went to Gimmelwald, Switzerland, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Girona (on accident), and Alghero and Palau on the island of Sardegna. We bought our train tickets to Switzerland at the train station in [...]
Mia amica ha visitado
Posted in Italy, Travel on April 8, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
One of my greatest friends, Caitlyn, just flew out from Colorado to spend her Spring break in Italy. We met in Rome, and then traveled to Naples and Capri before returning to Perugia. We spent the first night visiting the Trevi Fountain. The fountain lights are beautiful but the place was packed with tourists, even [...]
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