Italy 2000 Journal Entries
Jim and Diana Zurer

4/25/2000 Udine
The trip over was long and uncomfortable...the Alitalia 767 had the most uncomfortable seats yet and the plane was packed.
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4/26/2000 Udine
We seem to have beaten the jet lag by sleeping through the night and adapting to Italian time without difficulty. The weather is stunning....sunny and warm with a cloudless blue sky.
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4/27/2000 Udine
The weather appears to be overcast and slightly cooler today, but no rain is in the offing. After breakfast (we did have some attitude problems with the breakfast room waitress--she had to assert her domination of the area), we headed off for a Tiepolo morning.
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4/28/2000 Udine
Today we are off to Cividale del Friuli, a small town about 15 km east of Udine. On the way, we had one of those pleasant encounters that add so much to a trip.
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4/29/2000 Udine
Today we plan to drive south, to the old Roman city of Aquileia and on to the beach resort of Grado.
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4/30/2000 Trieste
The drive from Udine to Trieste was uneventful....Diana did the driving and got her first experience with small town and narrow road driving when we left the autostrada and took the shore route to Trieste.
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5/01/2000 Trieste
May 1 is a major holiday in Italy--the Festa del Lavoro--and most commercial establishments are closed. Breakfast at the hotel is served in a very elegant room on the Piazza
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