{"id":1273,"date":"2016-12-13T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T01:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2017-05-16T23:30:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T05:30:18","slug":"our-early-christmas-present-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/our-early-christmas-present-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"our early Christmas present: Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since we were going to Berlin for \u00a0a work conference, I told Dallin we just had to make a quick stop in Italy. And when I say quick stop, I mean very quick. A day in 2 major touristy cities in order to show him all the sights that I could. Florence and Venice.<\/p>\n

Italy is beautiful. Going back was a very strange sensation for me – to return without seeing any of my dear friends, it was difficult to say the least. I realized that I have romanticized Italy. I have built it up in my mind (the sightseeing, at least). But the people, the people are my absolute favorite. And since I didn’t have time to see anyone, I know that I have to go back. And I have to go back very soon.<\/p>\n

Here are some pictures from our adventures:\"img_4185\"<\/p>\n

Dallin hates asking others to take pictures of us and this is the best we could get with the selfie stick. But we saw the leaning tower for like 5 seconds before we had to run and catch our train to Florence.<\/p>\n

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Dallin took this picture and we laughed so hard because it seriously looks like I’m making out with the pizza. I love pizza more than Dallin, it’s okay, he understands.<\/p>\n

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And this pumpkin, ravioli, TO DIE FOR.\"img_4307\"\"img_4298\" \"img_4282\" \"img_4224\"More to come on my one day in Florence itinerary, but email me if you would like some recommendations for my favorite gelato and pizza spots.<\/p>\n

The next day we took a train to Venice. I didn’t take our camera around and take pictures because it was raining, but I got a few!<\/p>\n

\"img_4375\"Convincing Dallin to spend 80 euro on this was worth it since I had dreamed of the gondola ride every P-day. (Dallin has a different version of the story, let’s just say we still\u00a0disagree about this…)<\/p>\n

\"img_4422\" \"img_4434\"Venice is a magical city, there really are no words.<\/p>\n

It was a quick trip but it was so much fun. Thank you Dallin for letting me show you around.<\/p>\n

And of course, the best part of Italy:<\/p>\n

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Oh gelato, I miss you.<\/p>\n

Italy, I will return, I promise.<\/p>\n

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Since we were going to Berlin for \u00a0a work conference, I told Dallin we just had to make a quick stop in Italy. And when I say quick stop, I mean very quick. A day in 2 major touristy cities in order to show him all the sights that I could. Florence and Venice. Italy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,20],"tags":[49,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}