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Vendemmia Time!

Vendemmia, Italian for grape harvest. The vines are starting to turn hues of orange and red, and the grapes are juicy sweet. It's harvest time. Two days before the harvest was to start we pulled out all the bins, baskets, tubs, and tubes and gave then a good rinsing. Grapes don't like...

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Slade's Elucidation on October 7, 2008 from Petroio, Italy

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Via Dell'Amore

The Via Dell'Amore (Lover's Lane) links the two Cinque Terre towns of Riomaggiore and Vernazza. It runs along the cliffside. Lover's are encouraged to place a lock on the rails in the center of the Lane. Anouk and I took a stroll one night to place our lock.

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jonathantower on October 7, 2008 from Riomaggiore, Italy

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More Cinque Terre

I've made my way today to Vernazza for some Internet Access, one of the five towns in the Cinque Terre. (P.S. This is the view from the train station that I talked about.) For all those canadians wonder what the weather is like, it's always been perfect. Which makes you realize why no one...

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jonathantower on October 5, 2008 from Vernazza, Italy

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Vulkanexpedition

Arne und ich haben es endlich nach Sizilien geschafft. Nach einer Übernachtung haben wir uns ausgeschlafen auf den Weg zum Basecamp Etna-Nord gemacht. Dort gibt's es wohl gute Informationen und viel zu sehen. Wie es der Zufall jedoch so will, haben wir uns verfahren und sind bei einem...

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finnhahn on October 4, 2008 from Milo, Italy

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Venezia per Cinque Terre

Pour notre derniere soiree a Venise, nous avons pris une tournee en gondole. C'etait dispensieux, mais ca vaut le prix. (nous avons des videos interessantes de cette aventure!). Le matin suivant, nous sommes dirigé vers le Cinque Terre. C'était plus long que prévu, et nous étions...

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jonathantower on October 4, 2008 from Monterosso al Mare, Italy

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Venice by Day

Our first full day in Venice was wonderful. We visited mostly the Rialto Bridge and San Marco Square. At the piazza, we visited the Meseo Correr, San Marcos Basilica, Doges Palace and caught the most wonderful view in the Bell Tower. We also spent a lot of time dodging pigeons

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jonathantower on October 2, 2008 from Venice, Italy

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Planes, Trains, Buses & Boats

Getting to Rome was the easy part! After arriving, we took a train to Termini station, where we roamed around and found some cheap Pizza. We then made our way to Venice, which took one train, a bus, another bus to a plane, a plane and another bus. Needless to say, we were exhausted.

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jonathantower on October 1, 2008 from Rome, Italy

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Cinque Terre

Before leaving Austin we went to the Art City Austin show and one of the exhibitors had a picture on display of an unbelievably picturesque village clinging to the coast of Italy, well we decided we we're going to go there right on the spot, and this week we did. We had been working hard...

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Slade's Elucidation on September 30, 2008 from Riomaggiore, Italy

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Rom

Hallo, seit langem finde ich nun mal wieder die Zeit einen Blogeintrag zu verfassen. Irgendwie gab es in letzter Zeit nicht mehr so viel zu Berichten. Wir waren die letzten Tage in und um Rom unterwegs. Freitag haben wir uns vorgenommen das Nachtleben der Stadt mal ausgiebig unter die...

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finnhahn on September 28, 2008 from Rome, Italy

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