Somewhat at the last minute, Roy and I booked a week long trip to Italy. I started in Venice on my own, and then met up with Roy in Rome. We spend a few days there and then continued on to Florence. After my whirlwind tour of Europe in 2002, Italy was my favorite country and I wanted to spend more time there. It was perfect when Roy proposed this trip.

We ate lots of great food, drank barrels of wine, and had way too much gelato. It was all delicious. Venice is beautiful but basically a giant tourist trap. Rome is interesting because of all the history. Florence is my favorite city. There are great museums (David), great food, and lots of locals so you don't feel you are surrounded by other tourists. Well, except for the Stanford in Florence students we ran into at a wine bar.