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Venice
Our first glimpse of Venice was from a Vaporetto (water bus) that took us a short way before we got off and walked a little further to our hotel. Our accommodation was not originally built as a hotel, but as a former palace. The rooms and hallways were smaller than in our last hotel. This…
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Pisa
The first couple of hours of our travel from Florence to Pisa we drove through the Apennine Mountains. In many cases we went through long tunnels cut into the mountains. After that the rest our our journey was fairly flat. We arrived in Pisa at a bus parking area a few kilometres from the town.…
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San Gimignano
“You are going to the Tuscany of your dreams,” said our tour guide Barbara. Our bus took us through countryside green, lush, and unlike anything we’d seen so far. Our destination was San Gimignano, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Barbara told us that when invaders tried to attack, the guards on the wall yelled, “alar…
