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(Note to Linda Watanabe McFerrin: yes that is a series comma in the title!) First a note about the weather. * Rome: the highs were in the 90’s with sweltering humidity (70+%) * Castel Gandolfo: the highs were in the low 80’s or high 70’s but with 70% humidity
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This is the last day before my daughters and Minne join me on this adventure. I have been warned Sarah tried to get out of coming here altogether and seems to have some private grudge with me. She’s pinned all on a sentence from an email I sent her.
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Genoa is incredible! But it was not off to a good start. I arrived in Genoa Piazza Principe station. I took two metro stops to the new AirBNB but there was no up escalator only two escalators going down. I did not want to go up those steep steps with
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I woke up at 5 am this morning, after restless sleep. The Italian Victory last night did little to disturb my sleep though. After they won the game, fireworks went off and then there was a boisterous march through the village which passed quickly by my house. Afraid the train
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Days 3 & 4: I Castelli Romani I left Rome very early on day 3 to escape the heat. It was already creep[ing upwards to 80 degrees and I could not bear the thought of dragging two heavy bags and my back up down and up and back down
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Roma, 9 lujlio 2021 The morning started with the colosseum, a special tour that would take us to the floor of the colosseum. I walked from the house to the colosseum and it was a wonderful pleasant walk and saw many familiar landmarks and sundry roman ruins along the way.
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Roma, 8 lujlio 2021 It is nothing short of miracle I am here to write this entry today, more on that later. 24 hours ago I was in San Francisco. For 240 hours I was obsessing about the ever changing requirements to enter Italy as an American citizen. Proof of
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Hello Everyone, I am planning a trip to Italy as the first part in a series of voyages that will help me determine where I would like to live when I retire. My first trip is departing Wednesday 7 July 2021. The COVID crisis is either over or at a