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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Southern Field Trip/Spring Break

For the past 2 week, I have been traveling outside of Rome. For the first week, my class had went on a week long field trip through southern Italy to places such as Pompeii, Paestum, Trani, Lecce, and Matera. Thing I've noticed so far in Italy is that no matter where you travel every place has it's own identity. I mean you always experience something different, unlike in America where you go from suburb to suburb and it's pretty much identical with a few exceptions =P. Anyway, It was an awesome trip except for the bus ride back to Rome, mainly because of a blizzard that occured while we were on top of a mountain and was stuck for about 6-7 hours =/, which added onto the original time of 6 hours that it would have taken us to get back into 12 hours >_<. Once I got back to Rome around midnight though, I pretty much stayed up until 4 in the morning because I had to catch a flight into the UK to visit RJ =). That marked the beginning of my spring break ^_^. So I stayed with RJ for 3 days in Norwich, which was about 2 hours out from London and didn't do too much. I didn't care though, it was just nice to be sitting around doing nothing for once =D. After UK, I went to Barcelona for a day. Barcelona is definitely a city that takes a lot more then a day to discover everything that's there. I pretty much walked for 8-9 hours straight and tried to take in as much as possible =P.

I'm going to only post 1 picture per place for now because I have way too many to post. So at a later post I will post a collection of my album. So this will be a small sample of each =P.

Barcelona: La Sagrada Familia

Norwich, UK: RJ's backyard

Matera: Sassi

Lecce

Castel del Monte

Trani

Paestum

Pompeii

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Friday, February 13, 2009

Day 33

Uh oh seems like I've been slacking with these post =P.
So the past weekend I went to Florence, which is an amazing city. Compared with Rome, Florence is a lot cleaner. I think it has something to do with the extremely small amount of gypsies and homeless people then there is in Rome. Plus you don't step on random pieces of dog turd every couple of feet =P. The most interesting part about the trip though was that we had stayed in a convent with nuns. Surprisingly the place was very nice, it seemed more like a small hotel then something you would normally think of when you hear the words "convent" and "Nuns". While I was in Florence though, I managed to spend 35 Euros on a single dinner. Why? because I was told it was probably the best food and memorable experience I would ever have. Is this true? I must say 35 Euros for 4-5 course meal plus unlimited red house wine plus the atmosphere is definitely worth every penny =D. If any of you are wondering the name of the place, it is called "il latina".

Took about 700 photos so I'm only going to show you the Cathedral in Doumo:

Dome built by Brunelleschi:

Facade of the Cathedral:

No Fakes Per Favore:

After walking about 700 steps I believe, I took about 100 shots of the city from the top of the dome. Just looking around from that vantage point made my whole trip to Italy worth it.

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Sunday, February 1, 2009

Day 17-18

Since the Superbowl is about to start I'm not going to write too much =P. Enjoy the pictures

The Famous Pantheon:

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Day 16

Sorry people, been working on 1-2 hours of sleep. Starting to form bags under my eyes @_@. Will post really nice pics this weekend ^_^ promise =D

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Monday, January 26, 2009

Day 14

Still stuck in studio working on Design -_- .

Updated Plans =D.

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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Day 13

Didn't go out much today, though found a mile long flee market where I bought a nice backpack for 15 bucks so I can bring it with me on field trips =D. And also found something for my DS. I didn't have my camera with me so couldn't take pictures. So to compensate, I'll show you guys what I have been doing the rest of the day ^_^

Victorio Emanuella II Monument: Floor Plans ( my 4 years of architecture training =D )