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Tuscany, Pisa, and Venice, oh my!

We have been all over Italy in the last few days, from South to North and now East to West. Today we arrived in Montecatini in the Tuscany region, after visiting Pisa earlier today. I made sure to get pictures of the leaning tower, but we didn't have too much time there.

Yesterday we spent the day in Venice, which was a very unique place with canals instead of streets and boats instead of cars. The canals are pretty dirty, and the streets are very narrow and easy to get lost in. The night before we went on a boat ride to the island of Burano in the Venice lagoon. All the houses were different bright colors, and we had an excellent dinner. Many of the large buildings and towers in Venice are leaning or uneven, because it was built on logs on a sandy bottom. It's like no other place on earth, though. We didn't get to do a Gondola ride, because they're very expensive, so I guess I'll have an excuse to come back someday!

Italy is bellissimo! We have been covering a lot of countryside along the way, and getting to a new city almost every other day. The next stop is Sienna on the way to Rome, where we will finish up our trip. Tomorrow we get to go to Florence where I will be going to the Ufizzi gallery, the most famous collection of Italian Renaissance art. We went to the Peggy Guggenheim collection in Venice yesterday, which was awesome and had modern artists like Dali, Picasso, and Pollock. So I'm feeling very cultured! I'm also becoming quite addicted to gelato, it is way better than ice cream, I sure will miss it!

Ciao!

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posted by Megan @ 12:37 PM