Trip to Italy
Well, I have been off in Italy in the past 2 weeks. For the 1st 4-5 days, I was in Rome and then Fuiggi for work. Fuiggi was such a nice small town over the mountains with clear sky and fresh air. The work projects went well and we had good food, wine as well.
So by the night I finished work related stuff, I was still not sure where to go next. I knew that I like to spend several days in Venice, but what about 5-6 days before that? I thought about Naples. Yet all my Italian male colleagues said that I should not go to Naples by myself. Really? I used to travel to Sao Paulo, Brazil by myself for business... Well, at the end, I agreed with them that I shall try somewhere else. And I chose Siena.
Siena turns out to be a great place and a great time. I booked a small hotel out of Internet midnight before I took the train to Siena. When I arrived at train stations after changing trains twice and 4 hours later, I was told by the taxi driver that the roads to my hotel were closed due to Palio event? I said what event? Well, Palio is the famous twice a year horseback race events in Siena since past several hundreds years! It turns out to be such a fun time for me with 60,000 people:-) I also went to a day trip to Chianti and wine tasting. On my train ride from Rome to Siena, I remembered that almost 3 years ago, I was on a train from Florence to Rome and I was so impressed by the Chianti/Tuscany region that I told myself that one day I will be back. So I went back and I am grateful that I was able to do that and had a great time. I did wish that my pilot was with me esp. since he was just in Italy about a month ago...
After a few days in Siena, I went to Bologna - the food capital of Italy. Well, it turns on that a lot of shops are on sale and I like cloth sytle there. I bought quite a few outfits and I can not wait to show them to my pilot:-) I also watched Italy vs. Germany in the city center and experience the after match celebration with tens of thousands of people!
Then I moved on to Venezia. It was such an experience and I love Venezia. It was told every vistor to Venezia has his/her thoughts and they are very individual. I was amazed by the city and how everything about it. I had someone offer free Gondola ride to me, and I had ferry reparked for me, and I got a lot of mosquito bites. I wanted to stay until after Italy vs. France final game, yet was not able to get a seat back to SFO.
At Venezia airport on my way back to SFO via Munich, I chatted with 2 pilots who flew for a German airline. It sounds like that European airlines are doing better than their counterparts in US. One pilot just visited San Francisco last month and drove through Golden Gate Bridge with a camper!
Now I am back to SF and catch up with some work. I am thinking of my pilot now, and wondering where he is now:-) And here are some pictures from the trip and more at http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/janezhang/album?.dir=3fcescd&.src
So by the night I finished work related stuff, I was still not sure where to go next. I knew that I like to spend several days in Venice, but what about 5-6 days before that? I thought about Naples. Yet all my Italian male colleagues said that I should not go to Naples by myself. Really? I used to travel to Sao Paulo, Brazil by myself for business... Well, at the end, I agreed with them that I shall try somewhere else. And I chose Siena.
Siena turns out to be a great place and a great time. I booked a small hotel out of Internet midnight before I took the train to Siena. When I arrived at train stations after changing trains twice and 4 hours later, I was told by the taxi driver that the roads to my hotel were closed due to Palio event? I said what event? Well, Palio is the famous twice a year horseback race events in Siena since past several hundreds years! It turns out to be such a fun time for me with 60,000 people:-) I also went to a day trip to Chianti and wine tasting. On my train ride from Rome to Siena, I remembered that almost 3 years ago, I was on a train from Florence to Rome and I was so impressed by the Chianti/Tuscany region that I told myself that one day I will be back. So I went back and I am grateful that I was able to do that and had a great time. I did wish that my pilot was with me esp. since he was just in Italy about a month ago...
After a few days in Siena, I went to Bologna - the food capital of Italy. Well, it turns on that a lot of shops are on sale and I like cloth sytle there. I bought quite a few outfits and I can not wait to show them to my pilot:-) I also watched Italy vs. Germany in the city center and experience the after match celebration with tens of thousands of people!
Then I moved on to Venezia. It was such an experience and I love Venezia. It was told every vistor to Venezia has his/her thoughts and they are very individual. I was amazed by the city and how everything about it. I had someone offer free Gondola ride to me, and I had ferry reparked for me, and I got a lot of mosquito bites. I wanted to stay until after Italy vs. France final game, yet was not able to get a seat back to SFO.
At Venezia airport on my way back to SFO via Munich, I chatted with 2 pilots who flew for a German airline. It sounds like that European airlines are doing better than their counterparts in US. One pilot just visited San Francisco last month and drove through Golden Gate Bridge with a camper!
Now I am back to SF and catch up with some work. I am thinking of my pilot now, and wondering where he is now:-) And here are some pictures from the trip and more at http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/janezhang/album?.dir=3fcescd&.src
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