Verona, Italy | Tue Jun 16, 2009 | Views: 3277

Tuesday June 16             My last day in Verona.  It is hot, too, at least the third day in a row in the mid to upper 90s.  I actually put on the air conditioner for the first time last night, as I usually do not like them.  But I grew tired of sweating profusely just sitting in my kitchen.             Let me backtrack to Sunday, when I caught up on …

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Verona, Padua and Mantua

Roma (Rome), Italy | Tue Jun 09, 2009 | Views: 2242

June 9  writing about my last day in Rome             Since I had visited the forum and Colosseum in 2001 with Steven, I did not feel the need to visit again.  (However, I have learned from the students who did visit it that there are more informational boards down there in order to reconstruct the original buildings.  They were very excited about seeing the place where Peter—or Paul—was lowered into prison.)              …

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Florence and Rome

Venice, Italy | Sun May 31, 2009 | Views: 1233

May 31  Verona             Yesterday I went to Venice for the day.  I sound really spoiled saying that, J, but it is really nice to be that close.  I slept a little later than I planned, and I had to wait a while for the bus at San Fermo, but I still made the 9:18 train to Venice.              Got a 12 hour vaporetto ticket and got on #2, but mistakenly the …

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May 28 Venice

Urbino, Italy | Thu May 28, 2009 | Views: 2240

Tuesday May 26, 2009  Verona             There has been a dreadful since we arrived in Verona, and the last few days have had : record-breaking temperatures of 95 degrees or more.  I was sweating in a traffic jam for thirty minutes on the way back from Urbino, where the car temperature gage read 34.5 C.  And then finally I found the button for the air conditioning in my little …

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FSC summer Verona program 2009