The View from Others Windows

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  1. Rob4:46 PM

    Florence.

    http://bit.ly/zmmp9m

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  2. gcallah5:34 PM

    Rob, right province, but wrong city.

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  3. Rob9:23 PM

    Siena then.

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  4. Anonymous3:26 AM

    Aha! Siena? That looks like the 'Torro del Mangia' in the background, but it is hard to tell. The white top on the clock tower is a dead giveaway, though.

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  5. gcallah3:34 AM

    Joseph wins the cigar!

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  6. Anonymous3:42 AM

    A Cohiba Espléndido (Churchill), if you please.

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  7. gcallah7:44 AM

    Rob, you get a cigar as well.

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