Italy/Switzerland

The Rialto Bridge in Venice. I was actually surprised at how nice Venice smelled. You think, "big city on water," which is a recipe for a foul smelling place but they must have a hell of a sanitation system.


The Four Tetrarchs. Not much interesting about this except it's from Roman times and we learned about it in Art History.


Zurich isn't especially happening, but it's beautiful.


Another shot of Zurich. Pretty.


Zurich again.


Back to Italy! Sorry these pics are so out of order. This is the tomb of Dante Alligheri, Italy's most famous poet. They put him on their two Euro coin. He's especially big in Florence because he was Tuscan.


This is just a copy of the David statue, but it is the original location (before they moved it to shelter it from the weather and people and whatnot). I was surprised by how big it is in person, even if people tell you it's bigger than you expect.



Riding the shortbus in Florence.


Santa Croce (Holy Cross) Church in Florence. Beautiful.


Burt Reynold in Florence. Awesome.


Michelangelo's Pieta in St. Peter's in Rome. Michelangelo is Big (capital B) in Italy.


St. Peter's. You may have heard of it.


This about sums up my night on the Roman Pub Crawl.


Baptistary in Florence. The doors of this building are some of the earliest examples of Renaissance art.


Cathedral in Florence. I actually heard that one out of every three major art pieces in the world is in Italy and one third of that is in Florence. So 1/9 of every major art piece in the world is in Florence. I believe it.

My camera was full while I was in Milan so I need to get those pictures from Rachel. I'll try to do that soon. Till then!

Love,
A.Diddy

Pics from Greece

I'll post write ups when I have more time. For now enjoy the pics.


The lovely city of Itea. We stopped here for lunch one day. The Greeks were having a festival for Mardi Gras so a few of our group danced with them and they offered us bread and cheese. It was pretty cool.


A view of the town of Kalambaka from the Meteora Monastery. The roads up here were terrifying, especially considering we were on a huge coach bus. Worth it though. Maybe.


A view of Athens from the Acropolis. Pretty.


A shot of Delphi. Funny story about the Oracles: there is a natural gas leak there so that is why they hallucinated and were able to 'predict the future.'


Another shot of Delphi, with some guy in it.


Helmets used by ancient Greek warriors. Imagine those in 100 degree heat and you wonder how they ever died from each other.


Drink and drink and still never feel satisfied.


Shot of the Parthenon.


At the Athens archaeological museum. This is a very famous statue of either Zeus or Poseiden. Check out how long the arms are.


They had recently privatized the university system in Greece. These students were not happy. Luckily we got out before they really started rioting.


Riot police keeping all those troublemakers in line. Once again, we were lucky to get home before the teargas started flying.


At the Greek War Museum. They stole this tank from Bulgaria. I didn't want to tell them that if you have to steal from the Bulgarian army, your own probably isn't doing too well.


Another shot of the Acropolis. The weather was beautiful (unlike everywhere else in Greece which was cold and windy).


Me at the Acropolis.


Another one of me at the Acropolis. I wasn't actually listening to my iPod. Our tour leaders had a microphone so we could listen from a distance away.


Rachel and I at the Acropolis.


A horse and rider in Athens. Our Art History Prof worked on this when she was a student. Cool.

Okay seriously

The pics.... they are coming. Soon.

I had 25 pages due in the last week. Soon.




I promise.

Well that happened

After three weeks and four countries I am finally back.

I'll start posting pics once I start coming to grips with the experience I just had. Wow.