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		<title>View from our Window #3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We left Tuscany Saturday morning and are now at our apartment in Rome. We’re staying in a neighborhood called Trastevere which is very active at night with restaurants and bars. Below are two pictures from our window, one at night and the other in the morning when it is really quiet.


&#8211; Dave
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		<link>http://www.burnsorama.com/blog/2010/08/29/view-from-our-window-3-4/</link>
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		<title>Massa Maritima</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We spent our last day in Tuscany exploring a hill town that we did not visit in 2008 and that is not visited by most tourists (at least most Americans). A coworker of mine also writes travel guidebooks about Tuscany and Italy and he generously gave me a copy before we left. In his book, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.burnsorama.com/blog/2010/08/27/massa-maritima/</link>
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		<title>Montepulciano</title>
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We spent one of our last days in Tuscany in Montepulciano, one of our favorite hill towns and it didn’t disappoint. The town is very picturesque, not as crowded as some others, offers tasting of local wines, and has plenty of side streets and back alleys to wander. It turned out that the town was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.burnsorama.com/blog/2010/08/26/montepulciano/</link>
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		<title>Siena</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who doesn’t love Siena?
We spent a really nice day with Dan and Han checking out the sights and walking around town.&#160; Some pics below:

One of the buildings on Il Campo, Siena’s main square.

 
An apartment building with one of the town’s many churches in the background.


The Duomo’s nave and dome.
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Detail from the organ in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.burnsorama.com/blog/2010/08/24/siena/</link>
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		<title>Did a pigeon really just shit on me?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes.
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- Meredith
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		<link>http://www.burnsorama.com/blog/2010/08/23/did-a-pigeon-really-just-shit-on-me/</link>
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		<title>San Gimignano</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since we are here in Tuscany for a week, our typical plan is to visit a different historic hill town each day. On Sunday, we visited Volterra which was one of our favorites in 2008 but this time was made a little more difficult because they were holding a week-long festival. This made the town [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.burnsorama.com/blog/2010/08/23/san-gimignano/</link>
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		<title>View from our Window #2</title>
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We’re staying in a villa in Tuscany just outside San Gimignano. We stayed here during our 2008 trip and loved it so much we decided to come back. Last time, because there were only two of us, we had a small apartment that didn’t have much of a view from the window. This time however, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.burnsorama.com/blog/2010/08/22/view-from-our-window-2-5/</link>
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		<title>View from our Window #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the view from the window in our hotel in Orbetello where we stayed on Friday night:
 
&#8211; Meredith
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		<link>http://www.burnsorama.com/blog/2010/08/21/view-from-our-window-1-3/</link>
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		<title>Out and About in Orbetello</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the suggestion of Dave’s co-worker who writes guidebooks for Italy, we decided to check out an area along the Tuscan coast on Friday after arriving on the red-eye (and before starting our villa stay in Tuscany on Saturday).&#160; The area is not very well known by American tourists – mostly, Italians go there to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.burnsorama.com/blog/2010/08/21/out-and-about-in-orbetello/</link>
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		<title>Elefante Bianco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I rented a car for this trip, I knew I’d need room for four people and I knew I had to allow for a decent amount of luggage since some people would have been traveling already for a week or two and I would have a load of photo gear. At the car rental [...]]]></description>
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