What an amazing journey. We had a 14-day adventure traveling around Italy capturing images with an amazing group of photographers with the lead of Kenny Kim and the one and only, Massimiliano Brunelli, our fearless tour guide. Together we explored the hidden corners of the world, sampled exquisite wines, delicious foods and learned about the true Italian Way of Life!

 

Day 1 – March 12^th/13th

We arrived in Italy… Planes, trains and automobiles!

 

Appleton to Detroit, to Paris, to Rome, then the train to Florence. Whew, what a day!

 

A few things learned today:

- pulling the long unmarked cord in the bathroom is an alarm. Think “help, I can’t get up” commercial)

-  your room key, a card, needs to be kept in the inside of your door to turn on the electricity in the room. Italy is extremely eco-friendly, which is awesome!

 

Ordering the house wine at a local restraunt in a ½ liter is super delicious! Alex had a delicious pizza and I had Spaghetti alle vongole. Delicious!

 

No downpour could keep Alex and I from finding a resting place at Hotel Embassy in Florence. We couldn’t wait to start our photoventure!

 

 

 

Day 2 – March 14th

The Leaning Tower of Pisa really does lean!

Why does the tower lean?

The tower’s problem is that you can’t stack that much heavy marble on top of a shifting subsoil foundation and keep it all on the up and up. Pisa is also famous for Galileo Galilei’s proved his theory that gravity exerts the same force on two falling objects no matter what their relative weights.

We then headed to Lucca. Lucca is an ancient city surrounded by a 115-foot brick wall constructed during the Middle Ages to protect the city.

 

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4 Responses to “Italy Photoventure Day 1 & 2: Pisa & Lucca”

1. tina koppa says:

   March 28, 2011 at 9:46 pm

   gorgeous!!! Italy is SO beautiful….you have done an amazing job capturing the heart of where my family came from!
2. max says:

   March 28, 2011 at 11:03 pm

   thank you guys. Great picture and a nice great new friendship hope you had wonderful and easy time in Venezia – Natalie, I’m curious to know why you did not like Venezia, so please when you have time send me an email with your impression, I trust you and I think you both have a good eye so if you do not like Venezia there is a reason for sure –
   Ok, not it is time for you to slowdown after so many km and hundreds new locations…but mostly you have to restart with your normal life

   Hope to see you again asap and, let’s stay in touch

   Thank you again
   Max
3. Gabrielle says:

   March 29, 2011 at 10:00 am

   Amazing pictures you two!
4. Jenny says:

   March 29, 2011 at 2:11 pm

   Simply breathtaking!