Arezzo, Italia- Just a quick post from Italy. Sad the Mets lost the Atlanta series, happy to hear Carlos D (not the one from Interpol) is making stuff happen, bummed about Shawn Green.
Italy is georgeous. Rome is chaos and beauty melted together, old stuff in the middle of cities is like the spice that gives it all flavor. Had a quick jet-lagged look around on Friday - went to Piazza Venezia, the Colosseum, and the old Jewish quarter. Jews are everywhere.
A disturbing trend - Yankees hats all over Roma worn by the natives. Guess Yankees are high fashion. Good for baseball, I suppose.
We got our bikes and began our journey yesterday. Picked up bikes in Orvietto, got back on the train for an hour, then rode about 40 kms to Arezzo. Jenny chatted up an Italian woman who recommended an inexpensive, clean and convenient B and B...love that! Ate an amazing meal after an insane thunder and hail storm that we managed to avoid. Took pics of restaurant, but cannot figure out how to upload.
Today, we are off to Lucca, trying to avoid Florence and the tourists. We'll see how it goes.
Ciao!
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Have fun in Italy Jill!
-Faiz
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