by Koby | Jun 14, 2016 | Adventure |
I guess I chose the right summer to go to Europe because — without a whole lot of planning — I’ve been able to meet up with friends a few times. This time I met up with Adler and Anna, two friends from high school. They’d planned three days of museum hoping in...
by Koby | Jun 14, 2016 | Adventure |
With a train to catch early tomorrow and most of Pisa’s sites seen, I headed to Lucca, a nearby town with its medieval wall still standing. The town is nice and you can walk along the wall the entire length of the town. I hid under buildings and in cafes during the...
by Koby | Jun 14, 2016 | Adventure |
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is really-freaking lean-y. It’s not a slight lean or a gentle angle, it’s all the way over. I got off my train in Pisa in the early afternoon and took the evening to wander around, read a few pages from my book in the shadow of the tower, and...
by Koby | Jun 14, 2016 | Adventure |
Rome is an interesting city. It’s bustling and full of traffic and students like many modern cities but the whole city is also a museum. All the buildings are unimaginably ancient and the city is dotted with landmarks like the Colosseum and Pantheon. Seeing history...
by Koby | Jun 13, 2016 | Adventure |
I walked around an entire country today, — only took about 20 minutes. I hadn’t even realized I had done it until I looked at the map later. The Vatican is a strange place. It’s basically a church, a museum, and a big garden with an apartment for the Pope in it....
by Koby | Jun 13, 2016 | Adventure |
Venice has the oldest Jewish ghetto in the world. Don’t worry, I didn’t know that either. It is small and quiet and was largely empty when I visited in early afternoon, before jumping on my train to Rome. Seeing the ghetto confused me, making me feel a whole bunch of...
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