Hello and welcome to the Italy info site for our trip! If you look to the left, you should see some links indicating where we will be staying, including hotel contact info and a bunch of info I pulled from wikipedia and wiki travel. I tried to keep the entries short and geared towards our stay there, but there is a lot of info on some of the bigger places. Rome in particular has a tremendous amount of history and sites, as might be expected from the center of western civilization for thousands of years.
Most importantly, one of the links is "Itinerary". This is sort of the master control page for the whole trip. If anything changes, I will make sure to update that entry at all times.
Each place entry should lead with a description of our hotel. The best is Montepulciano. The history of our hotel alone is pretty exciting. There should be sections on food and things to do. It would be nice to hike the Cinque Terre vineyard trail when we stay in Monterosso al Mare...The Cinque Terre boasts some of the best coastline hiking trails in the world! Pesto also comes from there. Perhaps a Gondola ride in Venice? It is supposed to be a bit expensive, but hey, when are we going to get back there? There are so many obvious choices of things to see...St marks in Venice, St Peters in Rome, Uffizzi in Florence. Perhaps we should explore some of the lesser traveled paths...The Boboli Gardens in Florence for instance or the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome. In any case, we are going to have time to see a lot!
One nice tidbit I copied from wiki travel are their suggestions on what to do in each city. Those are usually listed under a bold "DO". Things like Gondola rides and historic strolls and what not are under those headings. Furthermore, I have attempted to compile the most comprehensive listing of things and places to eat. Some of the info is rather surprising...i.e. the rules for eating standing up vs a table. I kept the history to a minimum and the lists of museums are easy to scroll through. Take a look!
I am going to be making a travel schedule page and a hotel summary contact info page soon.
If anyone needs any info at all, please feel free to direct them to this blog so they can wallow in pitiful jealousy! Mwa-HA!
-Ben
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