October 16, 2013 Sea World, Europe getting a delivery?
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October 16, 2013 The town of Soave sometimes provides a wine fountain on the street.
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October 16, 2013 Stacked street performers in Verona.
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October 16, 2013 In Verona, rubbing the boobs on Juliet's statue is supposed to bring a woman true love.
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October 16, 2013 Locks in Verona near Juliet's statue. Each one has the name of a girl and her boyfriend written on it. Each one represents an eternal love between two people (because the lock can't be opened).
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October 16, 2013 And then there is the used gum stick on a wall near Juliet's statue. I'm not sure how this tradition got started, but I think it's because people just didn't have a place to stick their gum.
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October 17, 2013 Everything seems downsized in Italy. This is a full-size shopping cart.
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October 17, 2013 Sign in the window of Prada. Borse: 14,300 Euros Translation: Purse for $19,000.
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October 17, 2013 Why eat fast food in Italy?
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October 17, 2013 Dogs can go bar-hopping in Grazzano.
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October 17, 2013 In the preserved Medieval town of Grazzano, which is now a tourist attraction, one shop sells ... samurai swords and fake assault weapons.
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October 18, 2013 This statue in Balogna needs a wetnurse!
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October 18, 2013 There she goes...
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October 18, 2013 Why can't Italy get their towers to stay straight?
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October 18, 2013 I mean, really!?
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October 19, 2013. Ravenna has a leaning tower. Doesn't lean too bad.
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October 21, 2013 Venice has several leaning towers. Here's one.
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October 21, 2013 And here's another in Venice. Good thing they got it right for the big one in St. Marks square.
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October 18, 2013 Some things translate ... oddly
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October 18, 2013 Ah yes, everyone going from Bologna to Stalingrado wants to pop into the old 'McDrive',maybe visit the McCafe.
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October 18, 2013 Outside Balogna, we kept seeing young ladies waiting by the side of the road. The police were in the process of arresting/questioning/? these ones.
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October 18, 2013 Outside Bologna. She really doesn't look too happy.
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October 19, 2013 We saw sex shops all over. Not sure why this one south of Ravenna is a Cactus Sex Shop. Seems kind of cool that it's on Marco Polo street somehow.
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October 19, 2013 In the Pope's Plaza in Ravenna, we kept hearing 'Staying Alive' playing over loudspeakers. They were teaching CPR. That music is the correct pace for giving compressions to infants.
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October 19, 2013 We ordered three cans of Coke Light near Ravenna, Italy. One of them looked like this.
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October 19, 2013 Our world without porcelain.. This is Sponge Bob's toilet.
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October 19, 2013 Connie wasn't too happy paying a Euro to use this toilet.
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October 25, 2013 Even the ancient Romans got to sit down on their toilets! Ephesus, Turkey.
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October 25, 2013 This line? Waiting to use the restroom in Turkey, and pay 1 Euro for the privilege. Typical of our whole trip.
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October 21, 2013 This was exceedingly weird to see in Venice. It's actually an inflatable (and life-like) sculpture of the pregnant artist Alison Lapper. It gets deflated on Sundays.
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October 22, 2013 I'm puzzled over the interpretation for this ceramic in a small village in Croatia. Just two easy steps to clothing - weaving and pounding with two giant wooden waterwheel-driven hammers.
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October 22, 2013 On the side of a wall in Dubrovnik. Not sure, but it's probably a rain spout.
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October 25, 2013 Cats were everywhere we went. This one likes a statue in Ephesus.
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October 25, 2013 Psst! Wanna buy a genuine Rollexx?
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October 25, 2013 Not the only sundial we saw.
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October 27, 2013 I'm really having to wonder just what transpired in the tourist town of Toarmina, Sicily to beget this sign.
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October 27, 2013 It's bad enough you can't walk around topless - you can't eat either! Toarmina, Sicily
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October 27, 2013 Window cover Taormina, the same town holding the sign on the previous page.
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October 27, 2013 Toarmina must have quite the place...
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October 27, 2013 I like this hand-cranked doorbell. Toarmina.
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October 27, 2013 Dead fox right at the base of a major trail up Mount Etna.
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October 27, 2013 Driving up Mount Etna, an active volcano, there were a number of curious warning signs. Many were apocalyptic in nature.
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October 29, 2013 When you park in Rome, by damn you park in any amount of space!
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October 30, 2013 More parking in Florence.
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October 28, 2013 Creative parking in Naples.
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October 28, 2013 Let's see him try to get out of there now!
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October 17, 2013 It may be small, but it's stylish in Milan.
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October 30, 2013 Even the trucks are tiny. Florence.
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October 28, 2013 I had to get a shot of this odd gelato in Capri.
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October 28, 2013 Capri harbor. Pay attention!
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October 28, 2013 The main intersection in Sorrento.
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October 28, 2013 Calendar for sale outside Pompeii
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October 28, 2013 There was a whole section of sex-related souvenirs outside Pompeiil, thanks to the famous brothel uncovered there.
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October 28, 2013 Penis sign on the wall in Pompeii. Brothel down the street.
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October 28, 2013 Penis on the sidewalk points the way to the brothel in Pompeii.
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October 25, 2013 Popular theme for magnets. These were in Turkey.
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October 29, 2013 We all know why the statue of David is so popular.
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October 29, 2013 Rome. I have no idea what's up with this.
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October 29, 2013 Mostly we had wonderful food, but it's nice to know we could drop down to America standards in Florence in a pinch.
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October 29, 2013 Nun outside the Vatican. What's in the backpack?
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October 30, 2013 I'm telling you, those old Popes were scary looking!
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October 30, 2013 See what I mean? Scary!
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October 30, 2013 This guy looks like the Zombie Pope.
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October 30, 2013 Pope Zombie the First, right?
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October 30, 2013 And then came Pope Dumbledore.
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October 30, 2013 In Florence, you rub the boar's nose for good luck.
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October 30, 2013 What's that lock doing there?
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October 30, 2013 Homer Simpson, Renaissance Man
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October 31, 2013 Smart Car vending machine. You can buy one with two enormous coins...
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October 31, 2013 Spotted from a moving bus, in France - 'Bad Girls go to Spain'. Hmm.
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October 31, 2013 You need scuba gear to visit this formerly-floating boat restaurant in Marsellies now!
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November 2, 2013 When you're selling admittance to an erotic sex museum, it pays to advertise.
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November 2, 2013 The Erotic Sex Museum in Barcelona.
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November 2, 2013 Street performer on La Rambla doing ... Alien!
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October 17, 2013 Upscale Burger King in Milan, directly across from the Duomo.
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November 2, 2013 Upscale McDonalds in Barcelona. Eating out of Styrofoam containers on La Rambla.
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October 27, 2013 Triskelion, the symbol of Sicily
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October 29, 2013 Every souvenir hunter dreams of finding the knights of the round table for sale! Gift shop in Rome.
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October 29, 2013 When in Rome, buy a souvenir that says ROMAN!
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October 28, 2013 Found this knick-knack for sale in a cameo shop at Pompeii.
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November 1, 2013 Souvenirs of the Black Madonna in Montserrat. The whole relic thing is weird to me.
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October 20, 2013 And now we start a little 'Cats of the Mediterranean' show. We saw cats everywhere. This guy was in Venice. (I like cats. So I'm putting up cat pictures!)
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October 16, 2013 This one in Lake Como.
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October 19, 2013 Three cats in Ravenna.
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October 22, 2013 Rural Croatian cat.
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October 22, 2013 Friendly cat in Cavtat, Croatia.
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October 22, 2013 Cat looking at fish in Cavtat, Croatia
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October 22, 2013 Sleepy cat in Dubrovnik.
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October 24, 2013 Greek cat on the Acropolis.
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October 25, 2013 The first of many cats in Ephesus, Turkey.
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October 25, 2013 Another Turkish cat.
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October 25, 2013 Cat tourist enjoying himself in the Turkish sunshine.
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October 25, 2013 Turkish cat posing for pictures.
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October 25, 2013 And yet another cat in Ephesus.
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October 25, 2013
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October 25, 2013
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October 25, 2013
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October 25, 2013 Yep, there's a cat photobombing in the background.
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October 25, 2013
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October 25, 2013
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October 25, 2013 Another cat sneaking into the picture in the foreground.
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October 25, 2013 Cleaning plates after lunch in Turkey
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October 27, 2013 Friendly cat in Toarmina, Sicily.
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October 28, 2013 Florence has cats.
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October 29, 2013 Roman cat in the Coliseum.
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November 1, 2013
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November 1, 2013
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