Venice was a really cool city because it is all on the water and there are NO cars. To get around they have Vaparretos which are basically buses on the water. It is such a beautiful city, and it is actually sinking which is sad because I guess that means someday it would be a city any longer! It was very touristy, but that wasn't all bad for us because we love the little tourist shopping bazaars. And the one by the Rialto bridge (right by our hotel!) was amaz...

I liked Florence the best of the 3 cities we visited, and we spent the most time there. It was very similar to Sevilla, you could walk everywhere, small streets with little shops, and at the center was their version of the Catedral, the Duomo. Its sooooo pretty the outside is white with pastely colors and it has a HUGE dome. When it was originally built they left the dome undone because they didn't have the technology at the time to make a dome that size, but...

I met shira at the rome airport on Saturday! It was great to see her, it had been so long! Then we had a nice little adventure getting to our "hotel." From the outside it looked like a normal apt building but then some lady opened the window upstairs and screamed out "Klein?" so yea we knew we were in the right place. It was just some couples apt that rented out their two spare bedrooms, and she made us breakfast in the morning! It was a beautiful apartment, ...

Shira added pictures! Journal will be coming soon!