i have returned from italy. we were near florence, it rained a lot, we saw the leaning tower of pisa and ate lots of pasta and stuff. we would have seen the art gallery thing in florence, but the queue was too long, and we would have seen the history of science museum (also in florence) but it kept being closed whenever we went there.
we stayed in a little apartment thing in the middle of nowhere - a village called Limite, which appeared to have a population of about 15 residents, several cats, and a fluffy orange "lassie"-type dog. we shared the apartment with many many insects, a lizard, and one of limite's several cats which kept jumping in our kitchen window and trying to kill the broom. italian men are not as sexy as i had been led to believe which just was not on. blech. also, italian restaurants in italy are worse than italian restaurants overseas.