2003 Holidays Italia: Toscany and Lazio

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	Our son Yanick at Düsseldorf Hbf

On August 8th we went from Düsseldorf to Bozen (Bolzano) by car train. DB Autozug had a special last minute offer: book within a week before departure for a  50% reduction. We tried and tried, but only 4 days before departure they would give us the 50% (Yeah: we're Dutch!) The first week we spent in a cottage at Il Pogetto  campground about 30 Km south of Firenze.

Local Ducati dealer in Incisa; August 9th	Entrance Il Pogetto

Firenze: Ponte Vecchio (August 11th)

A warning: In Firence we parked our car and suddenly there was this man with a parking ticket for us "Two hours?"  he asked, finally we wanted to pay for 3 hours. When we came back to our car , we had a fine: this man was not authorised to sell parking-tickets (we now know)

Yanick swimming at Il Pogetto	During our two weeks' holiday, most of the time it was > 40' C !

On August 13th we visited Pisa. We also wanted to visit nearby Lucca, but it was simply much too WARM!

The "wallpaperbackground" on this site is a detail from one of the  sculpures on the "Torre Pendente"

The Baptistery

In the mean time we went further south to Lagio di Bolsena another camping: Lido Village in Bolsena.

Sienna: August 14th

Sienna and its beautiful Palazzo Pubblico (1342)	Rehearsal for the "Palio" festival.

On August the 18th, we went to Roma by train from Orvieto
	St Pieter, Vatican

The Swiss Garde	In front of the Pantheon

Fontana di Trevi

Mon. a vittorio Emanuelle II, Piazza Venezia

The impressive Collosseum

August 19th; Civita di Bagnoregio	Swimming in Lagio di Bolsena

The journey back home, again with DB Autozug. This time departing from Verona. And after (again) 2 efforts: again with reduction!

J.A.Raven, September 2003

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