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The ideal of beauty in architecture in Italy and the us are very
different. In the united states if a building is 30 years old the
owner tears it down and builds a new one. In Italy, they keep their
buildings up for centuries and continue to use them. The apartments
we are staying in are midevil. They are renovated and modernized, but
the buildings themselves are hundreds of years old. I realized I had a
real American point of view when I saw some new construction while on
a train to florence and thought the apartments were way nicer than the
old ones (and probably have wireless Internet).

Being constantly on the go has taken its toll on me officially. This
morning I woke up at 11, sleeping almost ten hours. I had woken up a
lot over the morning… On saturday San giovanni valderno has a street
market that is just insanity. At 7 I was woken up by tools pounding
metal (I live on the main street of the town). I had to run down a
back street to get to the bike trail I run on everyday. The bar was
super crowded when I went to get a coffee. I think the entire town’s
population increased by 400% at 9 am today!

A quick pic taken from my iPhone (the original, the best!) this morning of the market in San Giovanni Valderno.