Finally, Italy

Things just haven't stopped since we got back from Italy, but finally I've been able to finish touching up our photos and uploading them to our Flickr account. Check out the full six sets of photos if you're interested (over 150 pictures in total), though I'll include the highlights here.

We started out in Baveno, a small tourist town on one of the northern lakes. The first few days looked like this:


Luckily things cleared up for our last day, when things started to look more like this:


We enjoyed a few hours out in the sun after my meetings got out early.


I absolutely loved the area, it was gorgeous, and while Erin grabbed some much needed naptime I took the chance to wander around and get some great pictures.





After Baveno, we went down to Milan for a few days. We enjoyed ourselves, but probably wouldn't recommend an extended stay there (interestingly enough the food in Baveno was spectacular while the food in Milan was only so-so). Amusingly after the Baveno shops being closed constantly because of the rain, we ended up being in Milan for May Day when EVERYTHING was closed. It was a little frustrating, but it allowed us to walk around and see the sites without too many crowds.

We saw the Teatro alla Scala, numerous parks, random beautiful buildings, as well as the Sforzesco castle.


Our favorite area, and where we spent the majority of our time, was in the Piazza del Duomo and the Duomo itself. The Duomo is the third largest church in the world and is absolutely gorgeous.

The Piazza:




The Duomo:





Of course, being away from Aeriana for so long was incredibly difficult. It made it a little easier knowing she was in such good hands with our best friends, but what made it even easier was the new Macbook we got just before we left, along with a webcam at home, so that we could talk to Aeriana. On one hand it made us miss her even more, but on the other it was just so much fun seeing her get all excited every time we popped up on the computer at home.



In the end we were thrilled to have gone, but more than ready to be home. We keep learning from ourselves that we're short-vacation people. More than a week from home and we're ready to be back in our own comfy bed. We loved Italy and look forward to one day making it back and seeing some other cities. For now though, we're glad to be home.

Labels: Brett, Erin, pictures, trips

posted by Brett at 10:05 PM