Monthly Archives: November 2005

A Word about Customs

Upon returning from Italy or another far away place, emerging from the airport through U.S. Customs is a joy to behold. Sit in a plane for many hours (longer than the outbound voyage for trans-Atlantic flights because of the jet-stream), and prepare for the airport departure process to be quite painful, further testing the fact [...]

Last day in Firenze

Today is the last day in Firenze, which has been the nicest place so far in Italy. Composing this without the Palm keyboard, so gonna keep it short. So, shortly, if you are going to go to Italy, make sure to go to Florence. Done.

On to Firenze!

13:35 - just finished writing the last w entries to catch up. We are now on the way to Firenze, which is a much more scenic route than that to Roma (although our train there was in the dark mostly - so now we are actually seeing what we missed visually on the last leg [...]