A blog update sooo soon?!?! Awesome! Lately I've been doing some travels around Northern Italy (even though Frommers doesn't consider Florence to be really party of the North). First I got to do a day trip to Bolzano & Castelrotto! These towns are up in the Dolomites, and part of Italy that used to be Austria. This leads to the interesting situation of them not really wanting to admit they are Italian, and so everyone speaks German. The fun thing about Bolzano is it is where the Ice Man lives!
Ice Man Link you can't take pictures of the Ice Man so I included a link to his Wiki page, are some pictures of the town!
This is Castelrotto, it's a really small town about 50 minutes by bus from Bolzano. You can read about it in Rick Steves ;). 
Terese and I went hiking while we were there and took the Path of Peace. It was pretty cool.
This is Castelrotto, it's a really small town about 50 minutes by bus from Bolzano. You can read about it in Rick Steves ;). 
Terese and I went hiking while we were there and took the Path of Peace. It was pretty cool. The next little Italian European adventure was with the group to Asiago, which is also in the Dolomites. The 10 of us spend a whole weekend in Asiago, watching them make cheese, horseback riding, and ice skating.
This is Claudio and the owner of cheese factory, aka "The Big Cheese." They took us through the whole factory, it takes about a year and a half from the milking of the cow until hits the grocery store shelf, and that's just the young stuff. 
This is me stealing a wheel of cheese. These wheels by themselves are worth about 500euro! WHOA! We also went horseback riding, and that was a little scary. Only because we were on the edge of cliff and my horse was blind in one eye, so he couldn't really see! On Sunday we went ice skating and practiced our triple axles!
This is Claudio and the owner of cheese factory, aka "The Big Cheese." They took us through the whole factory, it takes about a year and a half from the milking of the cow until hits the grocery store shelf, and that's just the young stuff. 
This is me stealing a wheel of cheese. These wheels by themselves are worth about 500euro! WHOA! We also went horseback riding, and that was a little scary. Only because we were on the edge of cliff and my horse was blind in one eye, so he couldn't really see! On Sunday we went ice skating and practiced our triple axles! The next adventure happened to be Florence! Whoo! What a beautiful city!
We took a bus tour of the city and got to see it from the top of hills. That is a picture of me demonstrating how tall I am! You know who is tall? The David! We went to see him in the Academia. Very impressive. There are two other fake David statues in Florence, one is where the original used to stand in the middle of town and the other is a bronze version and stands in Piazza del Michangelo. 
There is the bronze version. He is surrounded by 4 other Michangelo statues representing the seasons. The bus tour was really fun, and very informative. After that we did some walking and got some gelato. Gelato was invented in Florence around 1548, by an amateur chef in a cooking contest.
We took a bus tour of the city and got to see it from the top of hills. That is a picture of me demonstrating how tall I am! You know who is tall? The David! We went to see him in the Academia. Very impressive. There are two other fake David statues in Florence, one is where the original used to stand in the middle of town and the other is a bronze version and stands in Piazza del Michangelo. 
There is the bronze version. He is surrounded by 4 other Michangelo statues representing the seasons. The bus tour was really fun, and very informative. After that we did some walking and got some gelato. Gelato was invented in Florence around 1548, by an amateur chef in a cooking contest.Other than those mini-trips things have been pretty laid back in Verona. I will now leave you with two funny youtube links about Italy.
Europe and Italy - this one is VERY TRUE! Especially about the waiting in lines thing!
The Italian Man Who Went to Malta - this one is about Italian accents. Even the Italians think it's funny!
Hope everything is well! Happy Halloween!
Love,
Heather
what...you pooped in the refrigerator AND ate the whole wheel of cheese?!
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