We started our last day by getting in an hour-long line to visit the Catacombs. (Sidenote: while we waited in line, I had to go to the bathroom (surprise, surprise), so I used one of their street toilets. This was a space age system! The whole thing, ceiling to floor, is sterilized and dried between […]
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Honeymoon Part 5a: My Night(s) in Paris
Our TomTom took us on beautiful back roads since we were trying to skip tolls (7,80 euro for a tunnel and 11,80 euro for the freeway the day before!) We went through a number of quiet, country towns before BAM, Paris traffic. We ended up in almost stopped traffic for 20 minutes (6 miles), but […]
Honeymoon Part “Due”: Under the Tuscan Fun
After breaking through the language barrier and buying train tickets to Florence, we were off to the next town. The ride was quick, but we were in a set of seats with a girl playing her iPod for all to hear. She had headphones in, but the thing was on speaker. Odd. We found our […]
Honeymoon Part 1b: A Roman Holiday (Er, Birthday…)
Tuesday was Randy’s birthday. I don’t know how we’ll ever top that in the future! We started the day in Campo di Fiori where I ogled all the food options and the beautiful flowers. Then we did another tour from the book which took us to the Jewish Ghetto area, which is now a thriving […]
Honeymoon Part 1: Doing as the Romans Do
Sharing all the fun details of our honeymoon may take as long as the honeymoon did! In the hopes that I’m not too overwhelming, I plan on sharing this in parts: 1. Rome, 2. Florence, Tuscan countryside, Venice, 3. French countryside, and 4. Paris. (Further note: as I wrote out Rome, it got really long. […]