After my parents left, I gave Michael the tour of Florence. A trip to Tuscany wouldn’t complete without a trip to a Tuscan village of course, so the next day we made our way to Cortona. Cortona is actually the village that inspired the chick flick Under the Tuscan Sun. Now to be honest, I have… [Read more…]
July 26, 2011
My last two weeks in Italy were fairly uneventful in the best way possible. While there was plenty of time for thought, reflection, and that other cheesy crap (which will be the last post from Europe adventures) I mostly spent my time with friends and enjoying the city. Studying in the gardens, making our last… [Read more…]
July 20, 2011
My journey to Mama Africa was already quite sometime ago but I would be doing my blog a disservice if I didn’t document my trip. Since about a year ago, I put Morocco on my list of “must-sees” for my semester in Europe. I thought I would finally make it to the motherland in late… [Read more…]
July 19, 2011
With Spring well on its way, it was hard to go a day without some kind of event occurring in the city. Two of my favorite memories by far were attending a Fiorentina soccer game along with the Italian MTV Awards a couple days later. The day of the soccer game, Megan and I bought… [Read more…]
July 19, 2011
The weekend after our Chianti adventure, a couple of friends and I made our way to Cinque Terre for Easter Weekend. Cinque Terre is a series of five small fishing villages off the coast of Italy. With breathtaking views out of a postcard and breathing hikes out of a labor camp, it was a great… [Read more…]
May 16, 2011
In our infinite wisdom, my friends and I decided that booking a trip to Barcelona the weekend after spring break would be a good idea. Infamous for its nightlife, most of the club goers in the city don’t even begin their nights until around 1AM. Needless to say, there was going to be little sleep… [Read more…]
May 8, 2011
So for my 10 day getaway, my roommate Jack I decided to head eastwards for Greece! We thought a vaguely exotic (but not that exotic because it’s still Western Europe) destination would be a nice change of pace for our break. After the hell that was midterms and celebrating Italy’s 150th Anniversary, we packed up… [Read more…]
March 17, 2011
Last weekend, with the week of midterms approaching, I thought that an impromptu trip to Switzerland was in order to clear my mind and get in touch with mother nature a bit. This was my first solo-trip since my friends here wanted to stay back and study for midterms but I figured I’d regret giving… [Read more…]
March 17, 2011
Because of my apartment’s Italian-paced internet connection, I’ve been having incredible difficulty updating my blog in a timely fashion. But finally, in the midst of midterm madness, I have a connection strong enough to get this thing moving. Two weekends ago, a friend of mine studying in London flew out to join my friends and… [Read more…]
March 5, 2011
To my few dedicated readers, I apologize for the lack of updates! In between my travels and literary analysis of Dante’s Inferno, I’ve been hard pressed to find time. The weekend after France, I decided to reschedule my trip to Switzerland. I had yet to have a weekend to simply “exist” and was finally fighting… [Read more…]
July 26, 2011
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