Here is the first of our “Forget grabbing anyone else and risking a National Lampoon’s European Vacation style camera robbery, we’ll just stick the camera on the tripod” pictures. This one is outside the Duomo in Florence. 

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So, we have been in Venice since Thursday and it has been wonderful. It kept raining in Florence and it was gloomy- but not raining- on our arrival in Venice. When we woke on Friday morning, the weather had cooperated and it has been sunny every day since. Our trip to Venice [...]

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The Ponte Vecchio, where we browsed lots of gold and saw some huge gemstone rings and necklaces. A lot of the jewelry was old ladyish though.

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The streets of Florence were crowded today with shoppers looking for gold and leather.

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They upgraded our room to a river view and this is the view from our window.

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We took the Eurostar from Rome to Florence today. I actually was packed and ready to go on time and we had time to go get cappucinos and pastries this morning before going to the station. The ride was only about an hour and a half and the station in Florence looks straight out of [...]

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I just like this picture because it has two of my favorite things in it- Rob G and the Trevi Fountain.

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Here’s Rob G throwing his last coin in the fountain to guarantee his return to Rome. 

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We stopped at the Tre Scalini in Piazza Navona for a tartufo. It was wonderful to sit and eat ice cream and watch the people. Aren’t we cute? 

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The most expensive picture we’ve evr had taken- 20 Euro for this picture. We got hustled, but oh well. See Rob G about to kill the soldier in a jealous rage? 

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