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		<title>Italy Day 12:  Bagno Vignoni (Spa Town), Pienza, and Montepulciano ~ Southern Tuscany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, June 10, 2010 Tuscan Countryside We departed Chianciano early for the day&#8217;s exploration.  The Tuscan countryside was a delight for the senses.  The crisp, fresh, air, beautiful golden wheat fields waving in the gentle breeze, peaceful quiet, and the texture of nature, are the images forever imprinted in my mind.  I absolutely love Tuscany! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy Day 11:  Southern Tuscany &#8211; San Gimignano &#8211; Siena &#8211; Chianciano Terme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, June 9, 2010 San Gimignano Ciao! Today we started off with an hour and a half bus ride through the tranquil region of Tuscany.  Our first destination was San Gimignano ~ a smallish village, where we admired the Salucci Towers, Chigi Towers and Cathedral.  This town had an outer wall, which seemed to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy Day 10:  Florence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, June 8, 2010 Florence / Firenze (As the Italians say) As I alluded to last post, we didn&#8217;t sleep a wink due to the fact that our air conditioning was broken and our room was about 100 degrees (barely exaggerating!).  Today was one of our biggest, most impressionable and cultural days on our trip, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy Day 9:  Bologna and Florence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday June 7, 2010 Bologna Grazie Tante &#8211; (Thank you a lot) for reading about my amazing trip! Today we had a very long (approx. 6 hour) bus travel day.  We had a few stops along the way to help break up the trip.  Our first stop was at an &#8220;Auto Grill&#8221;.  As I said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy Day 8:  Murano &amp; Venice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, June 6, 2010 Murano Early this morning after breakfast, we took a boat ride over to the island of Murano.  This island is very famous for the beautiful glass that is blown there.  We saw a demonstration of  this very old art form.   There are only about four glass blowing businesses left there nowadays. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy Day 7:  Ravenna &amp; Venice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, June 5, 2010 Ravenna Travel today was through the Apennine Mountains to the town of Ravenna, the meeting point of Roman, Christian and Byzantine cultures.  We visited the church of St. Apollinaris in Classe, which houses some of the finest mosaics in Europe. The mosaic tiles above the alter were done around 500 A.D.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy Day 6:  Perugia &amp; Under the Tuscan Sun / Cortona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday, June 4, 2010 Perugia We spent the morning in the upper village of Perugia with a local tour guide. The Cathedral displayed beautiful artwork on its ceiling and walls. There were stunning views from the upper village of the town below. We were on our own for lunch so we went into a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy Day 5:  Assisi &amp; Perugia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, June 3, 2010 Our travels took us on a religious exploration today as we visited several Basilicas. The coach trip took us first across the River Tiber in the foggy, mystical, Umbrian land, to St. Mary of the Angels Basilica. This church is located down the hill from Assisi and was erected where St. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy Day 4:  Castel Gandolfo &amp; Orvieto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, June 2, 2010 Buongiorno! Today we had a travel day to the Castel Gandolfo, which is the Pope&#8217;s summer residence.  We stopped once again for a mid-morning break at a &#8220;Auto Grill&#8221;, just think Stuckey&#8217;s.  Little, short, Italian women would cut right in to the front of the long bathroom line without blinking an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy Day 3:  Isle of Capri</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Isle of Capri Buongiorno (good morning)! Today we were up at the usual time for a 7:00 a.m. breakfast call at the hotel.  We boarded a small ferry that bounced along in choppy waters for about 25 minutes, on the way to the island of Capri.  For 2,000 years, Capri has [...]]]></description>
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