Did you know? Have I told you? Tomorrow I am boarding the overnight train from Paris to Rome! I have a week's vacation from school (already! can you believe it?) and my friends Kate and Christine and I are going to spend it in Italy. Friday night we each have a couchette (mini-bed) on the 14hr night train, and when we wake up Saturday morning we will have arrived in Rome!
We are going to spend three days (Sat, Sun, Mon) in Rome: One day seeing the Ancient City (Colosseum, Roman Forum, Pantheon, etc), one day visiting the museums (Galleria Borghese and the Capitoline Museums), and one day visiting the Vatican City (Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museums, St. Peter's Basilica).
Then on Tuesday morning we will take the train to Florence, where we will spend Tuesday and Wednesday sampling gelato (Florence is where it was invented, the best in the world!) and visiting the museums (Academia and Uffizi).
On Thursday morning we will board the train to Venice, to wander among the canals and see the famous floating city.
Friday night we'll take the night train to arrive back in Paris on Saturday morning. Kate's parents are coming to visit her and arriving in Paris on Saturday, so that is exciting as well as nervewracking for her, I think. Christine and I will spend the day in Paris (there weren't any tickets left for a return to Besançon on Saturday, but it is not the worst thing to have to spend a day in Paris!) and then come back to Besançon on Sunday morning.
Finally on Monday morning I am moving to my next living arrangement, with the retired lady I mentioned in an earlier post.
What a week it will be! I can't wait to tell you all about it, I'm sure there will be stories to tell!
p.s. Happy Valentine's Day! Hugs and misses xxo
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Oh my goodness!! It's hard to believe that you are really doing and going and experiencing all these new adventures. Can't wait for your next posting. We leave for Texas a week from today and will be gone for a week. Hope some of the snow is gone when we return. It really is pretty but......ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!!!Love and hugs, dw
Oh, I can not wait to hear about your trip to Rome! You write so well I feel like I am enjoying it with you. I would rather be almost anywhere right now then here. I know you've been hearing how you are missing out on the most snow we've had in years and the incredible cold!! Although I shouldn't complain too much I had last week off and went to DC and now something is wrong with my knee ( old age I guess) and I'm off for two weeks...so I guess I timed this pretty well. Good time to be inside!
Back 40 years ago when I was in Europe we were going to take our eurrail passes and go to Rome and then we ran into some tourist who told us that there was political upheval going on in Italy and when they left there were tanks rolling down the streets. This was in 1976...so we decided maybe we'd skip Italy...so now I will have to see it through your eyes. Mike will enjoy reading about the "rude" French people you've run into...he'll pass over the nice ones of-course. I assume you've been hearing how Obama is winning everything over here? I was in DC during their primaries and it was very exciting. I saw the coverage when Romney quit,he said "he had to quit so the terriorst didn't win" ( read democratic win, means the terriorst win) and we become the France of the 21st century. Jon Stewart had a lot of fun with that one. So I guess he's insulted a lot of people with that comment eh?
Al and Pam Hays are over in Ireland now and she says the anti American government feelings are pretty strong. They are very surprised at how well Obama is doing ( The Irish) Does anyone in France talk to you about it?
Waiting anxiously for more news and views!
Love Mica
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