So Italy was amazing...DUH! Anyway, we did so much in the month that CJ and I hung out in Italy. I will post independently on the specific trips that we went on (like Pisa, Rome, Florence, Lucca, and my fav Cinqueterra!) but I also wanted to tell a bit about the day to day hanging out in Tuscany with CJ's brother Brian! So first of all CJ and I spent a lot of mornings just sleeping in after all of the early mornings that we all did this past semester. Quite often we would just head to the beach for the day (where you had to pay to park, pay to get in, and pay for a chair!) but it was so nice that we really didn't mind. CJ got into reading Atlas Shrugged and I spent the days wishing I had sunglasses so that the Italian men in speedos couldn't see me staring.
Driving in Italy was crazy! Those Italians are just wako on the roads, but after some time I realized that it wasn't so bad, and some of their driving rules/customs were better than ours (like no police pulling you over for speeding...you just have to slow down for the speed cameras, and that you are expected to drive in the right lane and pass in the left...not hang out in the left lane), plus CJ drove us just about everywhere so at least I didn't have to drive (AAA wouldn't give me an international drivers license anyway). We also spent some days just hanging out at the house playing with the kittens...Brian had two, an orange one named Harley and a black one named Davidson (I wonder if Brian is slightly obsessed with is motorcycle???).
Brian also took us out on the bike and that was a blast. Here is a picture of what it looked like and a bit of what it felt like to be on the back of the bike! We took it through the country side and through Pisa on our way home!
Some mornings we would head to the coffee bar just down the street for a cappuccino and some sort of breakfast. We both got hooked on cappuccino, but CJ prefered hers in the evening (con Baileys!).
Brian also took us out on the bike and that was a blast. Here is a picture of what it looked like and a bit of what it felt like to be on the back of the bike! We took it through the country side and through Pisa on our way home!Some mornings we would head to the coffee bar just down the street for a cappuccino and some sort of breakfast. We both got hooked on cappuccino, but CJ prefered hers in the evening (con Baileys!).
Other than that most of our adventures involved traveling so I will post about each trip ASAP. More to come soon!
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