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Italy | Florence back to Rome

It took me a bit longer than expected, but here I am with your second of two Italy updates! (You can see the first half of our trip here.) We left off with the tiny town of Castellina with a super-creepy entire skeleton “relic.” And though I put Siena in the title of the post, there were no photos of Siena. Well, so it goes. I didn’t take many and we were only there one afternoon. So we move on to dah-dah-DAH-dah Florence! Florence was really really great.

Oh that? That’s just the original Birth of Venus by Botticelli. It’s in the Uffizi. I realized about halfway through the museum that you’re not supposed to take pictures. Oops. Below here we have the Duomo – an enormous crazy-looking cathedral in the middle of Florence. We paid to go up in the dome and it was one of the coolest things we did.

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Italy | Rome to Siena

I’m baaaaaaack! So, as probably everyone who has ever heard my name knows by now, I was in Italy recently. George and I hopped the pond and spent three beautiful weeks touring the middle of the country.

cross and vespas in rome, italy

Our itinerary took us from Rome to Naples, then we hired a car and drove through Tuscany, before spending an entire week in Florence soaking it up. We finished up the trip in Bologna before one last day in Rome and a plane ride home. Weird that I can sum up our trip in two sentences. Probably better to show you some photos before I go on. We start, naturally, at the airport.

lady sleeping in washington dc airport

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Boston Lighthouse

I think I’ve probably done enough talking about all my travels, but wanted to share this image I took as my plane landed in Boston.  I didn’t even realize what was on the rocks down there when I was taking it – just liked the starkness of the scenery.  As we passed it, I realized it was a lighthouse and got kind of excited about the frame.  It’s interesting how different the world looks from up high.

boston lighthouse

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