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Jun 14 2011
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Music, Travel, Visitors

Preview of Dan’s 2-Week Visit

Rooftop of my residence overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in Juan-Les-Pins, FRANCE.
Touring around Cannes a week after the Film Festival chaos and hoopla had ceased.
Dan’s birthday celebration at Pam-Pam in JLP.
Leaving France via train – heading to Italy to experience Cinque Terre during my week off between programs.
Walking to dinner in Riomaggiore, ITALY (our town in Cinque Terre)
In Manarola, ITALY hiking on the Via dell’Amore (neighboring town in Cinque Terre)
Gondola ride our first morning in Venice, ITALY. This picture has not been edited.
Finding out that pigeons love Dan (and vice versa) in San Marco’s Square in Venice, ITALY.
On the Rialto Bridge overlooking the Grande Canal in Venice, ITALY heading to dinner.
Heineken Jammin’ Festival in Venice, ITALY to see Coldplay headlining on our last night in Italia.
“Yellow”
Back in France. Up early on June 12th so Dan can head home and I can check in more students for our second and final study abroad program, The Cannes Lions Advertising Festival.


All in all, one of the best two-week-stints of my life.
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Feb 14 2011
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Shoutout, Travel

Happy Valentine’s Day

Funny Valentine's Day Ecard: Happy Valentine's Day to someone who raised me, loved me unconditionally, and made me almost capable of having a functional relationship.

Valentine’s Day has never meant much to me – so I’m neither happy nor sad today. I do intend to have some good food for dinner tonight, but besides that expectations are pretty low/non-existent.
I DO have something to celebrate though… Dan is now OFFICIALLY BOOKED FOR EUROPE this summer!! Thanks to my expert travel-agent-via-internet skills and about 60k Delta Skymiles that Dan had accrued, he is now booked to enjoy an 18-day European getaway this summer. I’d say that more than makes up for his unfortunate absence last year.
I am extra excited because I am getting to experience new places I’ve never been to before this year – including London and Venice – in addition to sharing with Dan some of my all-time faves (like Cinque Terre and, possibly, Rome – maybe just for lunch).
Anyway, just wanted to share my excitement. Valentine’s Shmalentines……but YAY FOR EUROPE!!!
LONDON
CINQUE TERRE
VENICE
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Jun 08 2010
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Travel, UGA Students

Firenze

aka- Florence… is where I am now and where I will be for the next 2 days. Not originally a part of my plan – although I didn’t really have a plan – but alas this is where I am and I like it.

We left Cinque Terre early this morning after a good day and a half of eating, hiking, swimming, and lounging on rocks at the water’s edge. Noticing that our train to Florence connected in Pisa, I suggested we stop there for a touristy and snapshot-heavy pitstop at the famous tower. Beaucoups of pictures to follow…

After Pisa we had a slight mis-step in all catching the same train, but we YOLO’d our way through it and found each other at the hotel lobby in Florence just fine.

…which brings us to the present momen. We arrived to the hotel in Florence – knowing that three girls (half of our group) had a reservation scheduled here. The Hodge Twins and I had no reservations anywhere in Florence. Our mis-steps turned into mini-miracles as the guy working the front desk of the hotel (which was ENTIRELY BOOKED, mind you) somehow arranged to switch our rooms so that ALL SIX OF US can room together in mac-daddy Florence suite. We have a king bed, a double bed, and two twin beds AND our own bathroom. Not to mention enough extra space with which we could accomodate a middle school dance. There’s also a chandelier. Oh la la. So, needless to say, I have sidelined my plans of arriving earlier in Rome and will now be in Florence for a couple of days. Hard to pass this deal up.

Well, I’m off to find some gelato. Ciao.

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Jun 07 2010
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Shoutout, Travel

For Carl

Our love is international, Carl.
(And according to this graffiti art, it has been since August of ’09. Accurate much?)

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Jun 07 2010
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Via dell’Amore – Duffeaver Style

Took tons of gorgeous graffiti pics on the Via dell’Amore between the cities of Riomaggiore and Manarola while hiking the rocky, coastal trail in Cinque Terre, Italy. These just happened to pertain to me and Dan (aka: ‘Danna’, aka: ‘Duffeaver’).

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