Florence & Milan, Italy

October 13 - 15, 2000

 Our Travel Experience

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Our Travel Experience

We came to Italy for the weekend to see our friends Tod and Kristen from Tokyo who were there on vacation.

Memories only for now since we'd rather be traveling than writing in full sentences!

Seth "night trains suck"
Meeting Tod and Kristen after seeing them last Wed (June 7 - I think) at Pizza Kaya, link to Kristen's "life supply of pudding"
Having breakfast & realizing Tara's credit card was still at tourist info
Being led around by Tod and Kristen
First stop - internet cafe
Seeing the pink & green Doumo again (Tara's favorite from 199x when we were here w/ Mark & Tara & Tim)
Tod, Kristen & Tara deciding to walk up the steps to see the ceiling painting. Seth waiting it out. The crush in line and then empty on the stairs except for one American woman.
Unexpectedly getting to climb higher up to the roof. STEEP steps at the end. excellent wind and a bit of rain. Tara sleeveless.
Rejoining Seth for lunch. YUMMY.
Walking around town (passing that other church with lots of well known names inside by the David statue)
Ending up at the river - pausing to talk on the open bridge, sitting then on the covered bridge for a long time talking
seeing the vendors pack up in 10 seconds (like Seth had seen at Duomo)
Picking another YUMMY place for dinner

DARK room overnight with interesting bathroom. Comments on sharing bathrooms.

S and T being late. No big surprise. Looking out the hotel room window for Tod and Kristen. Neat view down narrow street.
Rainy day
Fruit marsipan candies & light lunch outside (Tod having to have his choice #4 as it was Sunday)
Train ride to Milan - more rain in Milan

Tod and Kristen's towel heater. The book on Europe.
Seeing the service going on in Milan's Duomo. That disturbing statue from x years ago.
The neat arcade.
Dinner outside in the rain, but near a heater
Tod's food won --- but EVERYONE'S was excellent.
The race to the night train
The lack of labelling on the night train
The ladder and rich, wood look of the DB night train

Munich train station magazines being closed

Arriving back in Murnau, getting bread and going to class.
 


 
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Tourist Info

Munich to Florence overnight train: 11:40pm to 9:10am
Florence to Milan: frequent Eurostar day trains with one stop in Bologna: 3 hours duration
Milan to Munich over night train: 10:15pm to 6:30am