Have any of you been to Italy?

For the past week I've been watching the Giro d'Italia (the Italian Tour de France if you will) or had it on in the background while doing stuff around here and Italy is a beautiful country. I said this last year when I watched it but they never use the same routes twice in a row so I'm seeing parts of the country I didn't see last year.

Watching now and the peloton are riding through villages and small towns that are so beautiful. I wish I had made it down to Italy when I lived in Germany but 9/11 kind of put a stop to traveling for awhile.

Two more weeks of the Giro makes for two weeks of 'traveling' through Italy and seeing some truly beautiful country.

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