ITALY | Sunday, 15 Apr 2007 | Views [696]
Goodbye Rome as I checked out of my hotel, took a cab to Termini and rode the train to Florence. Florence was the first stop to this train ride that actually would go to Milan. Like all my train rides in Italy, this was also a non event, except that ... Read more >
Tags: culture, david, duomo, florence, italy, ponte vecchio, rome, sightseeing, train, trattoria
ITALY | Saturday, 14 Apr 2007 | Views [730]
I really thought long and hard on how to spend my last full day in Rome. I have seen all the major tourist traps and I wanted none of it anymore. So I decided to catch a train to Pisa. So off to Termini I went, bought myself a ticket and waited for ... Read more >
Tags: italy, leaning tower, pisa, termini, train
FRANCE | Monday, 2 Apr 2007 | Views [1025]
Finally landing in Paris. From the plane I saw the Eiffel Tower and had a good bearing of the city from the many times I had gone through the map of the city back home. Touchdown. I was in Paris. It felt both surreal and real at the same time.
I ... Read more >
Tags: airports, amsterdam, france, immigration, netherlands, paris, train