Ciao from Padova

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to send a brief post from Italia. We arrived today in one of the smoothest travel days, minus the lack of buses. Apparently public transit goes on strike all the time in Italy and today was one of those days. Thankfully tax drivers aren't so into the striking thing, so we arrived safely in Padova.

I am happy to report that the Spanish airport security is working. I forgot to pack both my travel knife & bottle opener today, thus had them both confiscated. Ooops. I am sorry for the loss and relieved that the security was so nice about it. I wonder if they resell them? So alas, I have no knife or bottle opener. I have to say the knife has been extrememly helpful, but I am so saddened over the loss of the bottle opener after discovering the wonderful world of Tintos (fabulous red wine i came accross in Spain).

Tomorrow we head to Venice where we will spend two nights before moving onto Florence. While in Venice we will probably not be using computers since the price is about triple, but I hope you will all look up the new postings we will have in Florence. I think we will be posting on the 18th of July.

Ciao. Emilie.