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Eternal Sky

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There aren’t really words that can describe the mosiacs at Ravenna. The colors, detail, vibrancy and immediacy after 1500 are simply astounding....

Gondola-eek

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Today was the gondola ride. Don’t get me wrong, I loved it, it was awesome amazing (more later). I almost fell into the canal. You see, they are...

Ravenna Rocks

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Yesterday we arrived at Ravenna after a stormy day in Padova. Ravenna was bigger than I expected, and the lady at the train station ticket booth was angrier...

Graduation Day

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After the splendor of Venice & Verona, Padua was a gritty return to reality. Basically, it is an 800 year old college town- like Columbus, OH with...

I tried really hard to like Padova

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Padova is big, that’s the first thing I didn’t expect. You can’t leave a small painted cozy town like Verona and land in Padova without...

Veronese cuisine

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OK, so may of you seemed concerned about the horse. I too was worried. The restaurant we went to that night in Verona only had cavallo on the Italian language...

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…

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Wait, wrong play. Anyway we’re off to Padova (or Padua to us in Ameri-land) to see the Scrovegni chapel and the Palazzo Bo. Galileo taught at the...

Wherefore art thou question mark

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Shakespeare wasn’t exactly known for his field research. Since he never came out this way, it’s a pretty well acknowledged fact that Verona’s...

You say Roman, I say Romanesque…

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Here we are in Verona taking advantage of our 6 hours of free internet that came with our room. I got a great deal on a pretty swank place, there are some...