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After Denmark Trip
After Paris/Berlin Trip
After 2nd Rome Trip-Feste Delle Donne
The Puppies
two days after architecture is done...18-5

	Florence I live and study in Florence Italy. I have collected photographs and postcards of the city. . .
	More of Florence More pictures of stuff in Florence
	Brand Spankin' New! --> Still More of Florence <-- Brand Spankin' New! Still more pictures of stuff in Florence, some of these are nigth shots...
	Calcio Midnight Soccer Games in front of Santa Croce...
	Trips in & Around Florence Trips in & Around Florence
	First Field Trip The First Field trip of the 2000-2001 academic year took us to Pienza, Siena, San'Antimo. We overwhelmed pienza, toured Sienna's Baptistery, and ate sausage at the house of Macchiavelli...
	Boboli Gardens Once a playground for the Elite families of Florence, today, the Boboli Gardens are a splendid place to take a sunday afternoon passengiata. . .
	Denmark, I I took a trip to Copenhagen, Denmark to visit friends from Cal Poly and to sketch the city's modern architecture. I planned to see the Netherlands, but Copenhagen was so much fun, I didn't make it to the Netherlands....
	Denmark, II A trip to Sweden, turtle sandwhiches and "Dansk" hotdogs (with fried onions-what a great idea!!) kept me busy in Copenhagen....
	Den III More Copenahgen Pictures
	Den IV More Copenahgen Pictures
	Sweden Pictures from my day trip to Malmo, Sweden. Malmo was a beautifully, green city. The day was comfortable (though not warm) and set "late" in the afternoon...
	Livorno, Italy Livorno is a port city with close ties to Pisa. My arhcihtect class is working on a project to redesign one of the city's largest piazzas/
	Ravenna, Italy One of the highlights of the second fieldtrip was Ravenna. The centrally planed San Vitale was a beautiful church from around the year 400. It buttresses are appear to be very light as the spring from the Church's walls. . .
	Ravenna More pictures from Ravenna and also some from Gradata and Rimini
	Urbino The Ducale Palace and a modern University greeted our school Fieldtripers in Urbino. We stayed in Rimini, a beautiful beach town-the unfortunate thing was, it was the dead of winter, the the city was empty...
	Perugia, Italy Perugia, a very old hill town that wasknown for an annual competion inwhich two teams stoned each other, until one side could be declared winner. Today, Perugia is famous for its chocolates, especially its "Baci" (kisses)
	Roma I took a week-end trip to Rome to see some of the sights that I missed on my first trip to Rome five years ago.
	Paris A beautiful city. I spent Christmas and New Years in Paris. The weather was not exactly warm adn toasty-okay, it was damned cold, but I had a great time, and think that I would like to go back...
	New Years in Paris I met up with some friends from Cal Poly in Paris for New Years. We were able to welcome the REAL millenium from under the Eiffel Tower...meno male (not bad)...
	Orsay Museum & Parc Dela Villet Two of my favorite palces in Paris are Orsay museum and Parc dela Villet. The museum was an old train station and the Parc was designed by Bernard Schumi....
	Savoye LeCorbusier's most famous house is just outside of Paris. Well worth the 30 mintue train ride...
	Berlin I thought Paris was cold...Berlin was cold, very cold, but nice. It seems that the scars from the Wall are healing well...
	Parma Parma and Vicenza were part our Northern Italy Field trip We saw works by Palladio, Alberti, and de Sangallo. A number of the places we saw are in my architectural history books...
	Vicenza & Ferrari Gallery In Vicenza we saw some more works by Palladio and stopped at the Ferrari Gallery on the way home...
	Western Sicily I had a great time on my trip to Sicily with three friends from school: Palermo and it's quasi-illegible Duomo; Cefalu and the Mafia; Agrigento and Greek Temples; and Sciacca and chicken gunk...
	Eastern Sicily The last three days of our Sicily trip took us from beautiful but touristy Toarmina; to the island of Lipari and motorini; and finally to the island of Vulcano, named after a . . .
	Rome, Italy Yeah, we saw about all there was to see in Rome, that "One horse town..." Mathew Puentes
	Adriana's Villa Adriana's (Hadrian's) villa out side of Rome. Brian's Chapter focusing on "Playtime"
	Cuccioli There is not to much to say about these pictures, there are of the four puppies that Petit (la mama) and Choppy (schifoso) had. Two are boys and two are girls.
	Ascoli-Piceno The Superstrada outside of Ascoli-Piceno is the site of my Architecture class'es Spring Semester Project.
	Brand Spankin' New! --> Napoli <-- Brand Spankin' New! Naples was our home base during our Southern Italy trip: Our visits took us to Pompei, Ercoleum, Capri Paestum, and many other nifty places, but we every evening we all returned to all 30 stories of the Jolly Hotel-sucky elevators and all...
	Brand Spankin' New! --> Paestum <-- Brand Spankin' New! Paestum home of some extremely well preserved Greek temples and an impromptu game of calcio.
	Brand Spankin' New! --> Capri <-- Brand Spankin' New! We were blessed...
	Brand Spankin' New! --> Pompei <-- Brand Spankin' New! A real city, minus traffic lights and drive-thrus
	Brand Spankin' New! --> People <-- Brand Spankin' New! Pictures of People
	Brand Spankin' New! --> People 2 <-- Brand Spankin' New! More pictures of more people.
	Brand Spankin' New! --> Easter <-- Brand Spankin' New! Pisa to Ceccina to Milan to Pisa to Florence to Rome to Livorno to Pisa to Florence, all in under a week...
	Brand Spankin' New! --> Venezia <-- Brand Spankin' New! I decided to visit this little gem of a city before anyone else found out about it and it got all touristy...
	Brand Spankin' New! --> Architecture model <-- Brand Spankin' New! Pictures of my second semester architecture project.