Vacation was a blast, definately needed it. It was great to see some family that I haven't seen in 10 years and visit a friend of mine in School out there.
Went to Florence, Bologna, Saint Agata, Modena, Maranello, Rome, Amalfi, Gaeta, and the Vatican All in 10 days
Women were beautiful, wine and food were delicious and the sights were amazing. I highly reccomend visiting Italy if your thinking of traveling.

Driving over there is <u>Crazy</u> and i loved it 75% of the cars on the highways (Autostradas) travel at about 130Km/h (about 80mph) and the other 25% is going at about 170+Km/h (105+MPH) People fly up on you if your in the fast lane and not going fast enough and you Better Move out of there way or they will either hit you or drive an inch from your bumper. All this on small 2-3 lane highways most of it twisting through and around mountains . The street driving isnt much different people will pass you on any road anywhere if your slowing them down. Best part is On the highways the police could care less about the speeding, only on the local streets do they care.

Just wanted to share my good time with you all, so here are some pics (About 400 of them)

Florence


Gaeta - My Home town in Italy


Amalfi


Cassetta


Montegna Spacatta - Gaeta


Saint Francis Assisi Basilica - Rome/Vatican


Rome


Various Cars in Italy


Some Chicks



And for all you Ferrari and Lamborghini lovers

Ferrari


Lamborghini


PS
Ferrari wouldn't let me into their factory Hell they wouldn't even let me take a picture of the cars in the Lobby or even walk into the Lobby. I was allowed 2 pictures from outside and then had to leave Of course I then went to the Ferrari store accross the street and Spent way to much, Then after being pissed at the security gaurd decided to drive and walk around the factory getting any Snoop shots I could Also took a few of their Test track that they test out the F1 cars on.

Lamborghini was a bit nicer they wouldnt let me have a tour unless I had an appointment, but the women in the lobby gave me a business card with the number for Public Relations and said they would give me an appointment easily. Sadly we were leaving for southern Italy the next day Again I asked to take a few pics of the cars in the lobby and again I was denied. Not even 1 picture of the car 3 feet from me The "Lobby" was more of a showroom - 2 floors with just about every Lamborghini in existance, needless to say I was drooling.

The Security gaurds at Both places Loved me when I started taking all random pics outside hehe
I was also going to visit Ducati in Bologna, But after being denied at Lambo and Ferrari and the fact that it was getting late We decided to call it a day.

PPS We wil be open today at Noon

 

Nice pics Mike...bastard...I hope that you enjoyed yourself.
Austin

 

Good to see you back...my parents said the Amalfi Coast is just awesome.

But all I see is Imagestation pop-ups where the pics should be?

 

Click on the Imagestation pop ups, Each one is a link to an Album
There are over 400 pics

 

ah I'm a retard. sorry

 

click on the boxes

yshi - who doesn't see how this is ITR related...this should be moved to member's corner

 

Heh, I just went directly to the "some chicks" album.

Nice, I haven't been there since I was like 5.
wanna go back soon.

 

Holy boat load of photos batman. Glad to see you had a good time and that you made it back safe.

 

I got your Hytech-ed B18C right here

 

sweet! anyone notice the "chicks" album is all a$$? haha good job Mike

 

One of My favorites - Too bad it was to cold to take a swim

 

If you only knew how many pics I would have taken MANY Hott women there

 

I like the short one in the middle of picture DSC01984.

 

Welcome back Mike

 

That's the way to get back at them! Those nasty mean people!

 

nice pics mike, glad you made it back safe. you a made man now?

Brian

 

Forget aboud it

 

Nice pics, Mike!

You know anyone who can "whack" some ITR thieves for me?



[Modified by ITRbroham, 9:02 AM 3/27/2002]

 

I went with my friend Joe, His sister was studying in Florence so we visited her and then went to see my Family there. So no Hotels (Plus I have an apartment there) Plane tickets we got off of Orbitz.com and it was only $450 each round trip with a stopover in Zurich. I Spent twice as much at Ferrari and Gucci than I did on getting there Hotels are about avg price there.

If you go and Don't speak any Italian I would say to Visit Florence and surrounding areas (Pisa, Venice etc.) In Florence itself Most if not all Locals Speak english, The crappy part was that it felt to americanized at some places. I didnt have a problem in the language section because I used to speak it fluently, and picked up on most of it this time around. Get a book with key phrases and you should be set in any of the main cities.

 

Nice pics...welcome back..

 

Only Ferrari would have saftey-wire pliers in the "tool kit".


nice pics.

Will
-who thinks that kit is way more than the moogen one.

 

Not by much

 

Good thing you are back. This just out from CNN.com

"The U.S. Embassy in Rome said there were "credible reports" of threats against Americans in Venice, Florence, Milan and Verona on Easter Sunday. "

 

Hehehehehe.

I always said Colnago was the Ferrari of bicycles ..... and wouldn't you know it!! The Ferrari mountain bike is a Colnago!!!!

I owned two Colnagos (each frame was well over $1200), can't wait until I can say I owned two Ferraris ...... (Rick must be on crack again, you all might be thinking).

Nice pics Mike!!

 

Nope, I got a rental from Budget, It was supposed to be a Mercedes C220 for $465 for 8 days, But we got shafted when we arrived and got stuck with a damn Renault Megane Station Wagon