"weather-drew" (noun):
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Venice 2007
One of the greatest travel expierences of my life took place when my office sent me to work with one of their International client's, ARPAV. The people in Italy made me feel welcome and treated me as part of a family - without a doubt they are the biggest reason I'll never forget that week.
From Left - myself, Lucanio, Ariena, Sabrina, Gabrielle and Chip.
Front lobby of the Hotel Sollievo.
You know you're in Europe when you see these.
View from my Hotel room on the 4th floor.
Another view from the Hotel room.
Another view from the Hotel room.
The pool at the Hotel was actually heated by the towns hot springs.
Please, breakdance your way thru all fire exits.
Looking toward the trainstation outside the hotel in Montegrotto.
Downtown Montegrotto.
The group takes a quick photo from Gabrielle's Apartment, before dinner.
Welcome to Italy - that is one hell of a salad.
And that is one hell of a pizza, putting anything here in the US to shame.
Our lunch destination in Teolo each day, delicious.
Further down this street leads into the central village of Teolo.
View from Teolo - if only we all could work around this.
The front gate at ARPAV. This is the equivalent to our NWS Forecast Office.
The forecast operations room, with many meteorologists hard at work.
The Teolo weather radar at ARPAV.
Inside the machine room under the radar.
Microwave conduit feeding from the antenna.
Control center for the radar.
View from the radar platform, overlooking the Veneto region.
From Left - Chip, Myself and Bill atop the Teolo radar.
Looking down from the radar platform.
The ground reporting station at ARPAV.
Galileo's Tower at the University of Padova.
66.2MB Movie from Padova inside the university square, as we sit down before dinner.
Ritualistic posters found around the University.
Main hall at the University of Padova.
The Pig is Sad, a sample of the graffiti in Padova.
Even graffiti artists dread ”that time of the month“.
We await the train to take us into Venice from Montegrotto.
92.2MB Movie from the train station in Montegrotto, because I love trains.
3,000 volt overhead lines. That could hurt.
The safest way for a young woman to backpack Europe.
We pass thru Mestra on our way to Venice.
We arrive at the trainstation in Venice.
A Eurostar speed train leaving Venice.
A weather reporting station in Venice.
Street performances were common in the more tourist focused areas.
Hard to tell at first, but he's still alive.
Movie from St. Mark's Square.
We make a stop at The Fly in Venice for Leffe and snacks.
Please, for your safety - don't drink and boat.
Bill's got that crazy look in his face, which means trouble isn't far.
Max is one angry Russian - but one hell of a Pub Cralwer.
We make our way into one of the many bars Max arranged for us to visit.
After a night of drinking in Venice, it started to look like this.
The happy couple poses for a picture on the train back to Montegrotto.
Sooner pride is International.