Thursday, September 13, 2007

Sono in Firenze

I'm sitting in a little internet cafe in Florence. There are ten minutes left on this computer, so this will be quick!

What an amazing trip--and it's only been a week! My fiance and I flew out of New York last Thursday. We had a slightly hectic connection in Dublin, but managed to make our flight to Rome Friday morning. We found the train into the city without much problem, and then hopped on to another train that took us down to Cassino. Cassino is where my grandfather lived, and was stationed when he served in the Carabinieri (Italian military police). We spent a few days there, mostly seeing the place he was born, and the town in which he grew up. And we even went to the most bueautiful mountain-top village I've ever imagined, which just happened to be where my family originally comes from. All these stories I've heard my whole life now have a real place for them to exist. And it's so much more stunning than I had ever thought. This country is beautiful. Bellissimo

From there we've traveled up to Florence, where we've spent the last two days soaking in the much larger (and much more touristy) city. And tomorrow we head to Rome. The words aren't quite here yet to describe everything, but they will come with time.