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Italy Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Italy
The Amalfi Coast
This is a top pick! The Amalfi Coast is too far to bike to from Naples, so I dropped down to the city of Salerno. From there, I was able to bike the 25 miles to the trailhead of the Path of the Gods, a great trail along the coast. I biked up to Bomerano, where the trail ...
Blurred Perspective
This is a top pick! ... learning as much Italian as I had thought). Sitting by the window of the train I saw a faded, blurry, rain streaked version Italy, yet t could have been anywhere in the world for all I know. Images flying by faster than I could imagine with ...
Sink or Swim
This is a top pick! Venice by day is an incredible maze of sky high buildings, bridges and dead ends. Wandering in and around in a neverending tale of twists and turns as no one direction lasts more than a few meters. Storefront after storefront boast ...
"Sharse Mum" - Photos for my mum
This is a top pick! On our way down to Greece we stopped back in Rome to show Hannah and Campbell around. So these shots are for my mum, sites with the kids. FYI "sharse" or "show us" mum was the other response I got from the kids when I asked them to pose for photos. The ...
Naples, Pompeii, and Mt. Vesuvius
This is a top pick! The ride from Capua, though short at 30 miles, was not so fun. I found myself on a freeway after misunderstanding a sign on the entry ramp. I had thought that only the "A" roads were freeways, but it turns out that any of the regular “SS” ...
Cycling in Tuscany
This is a top pick! ... chill on the beach, or something. I am still learning my limits. The first day out of Nice I went through Monaco and into Italy. Three countries in one day…that’s a first! Lovely coast and the transition into Italy was not very noticeable to ...
Athens to Milan
This is a top pick! Athens International isn't exactly in the city, and it was a twenty mile ride from the hostel. The last couple miles into the airport, the only road is the freeway. I don’t know why they do this, but I guess it doesn’t matter as long as I ...
Venezia
This is a top pick! ... have done their dash but Venice is totally worth it. Our hotel is one train stop away from the city centre of Venice, so very close. It is a one star hit, but it is in our budget range and we are here. Tommorrow we head back through Italy to Lyon, ...
More Crodo
This is a top pick! I stayed at this campground near the Switzerland border for over 2 weeks. Not solely because it was beautiful, but I did a hike/jog up to 8300 feet. I started with the intention of doing a short hike, but it turned out to be a long hike to the ridge that ...
Lake Como
This is a top pick! Lake Como was only a two day ride from where I was before, so I figured I had to see it before departing Italy. After all, if it is good enough for George Clooney to have a vacation home... Well, it didn't blow me away (I’m getting harder and harder ...
A City of Real History
This is a top pick! ... up and down the road. With the 2000 year old ruins along the road, one would think the area would be protected a little, but this is Italy and anything is possible here. Having to get off to the side of the road so a car can pass somehow takes a little of ...
Rome
This is a top pick! ... it from the Colosseum and all the way up the road, the Victor Emmanual II monument, Victor was the first king of unified Italy. It is often referred to as the "wedding cake" by foreigners and the "typewriter" by locals but was a controversial building as ...
The Italian Job
This is a top pick! ... we felt justified to eat our hearts out. The food was... well, how can one put it? Did you know DeNiro went to Italy to gain the 60 extra pounds required to play Jake La Motta in Raging Bull? He knew exactly where to go and how to ...
On our way to Florence
This is a top pick! We tried to make an early start as today we have to get ourselves to Italia. As I don't have a passport at this time we cannot use airplanes. My passport is still with the visa agency in Holland. So we travel by train today. Our friends went out of their ...
5000km Stall
This is a top pick! ... supper tonight and ½ day tomorrow (that is if Brian doesn’t make us get to the ferry terminal too early). Ciao Bella Italy! I wish I could have got to know you better. Here’s to another return in times of warmer weather. ...
Milan for a night...
This is a top pick! ... night out in Milan. A quick drive down to the Milan airport and we pick up Aaron Breeden before heading downtown to watch the Italy - France Euro 2008 game in the Duomo square in Milan. Of all the games I've seen so far in this tournament, ...
Lake Como Weirdness
This is a top pick! ... ....yep, snow, again, in the middle of summer. What the!!! Within an hour things had changed dramatically. Our last obstacle before Italy was a tunnel, all 17km's of it. Driving in a 17 km tunnel is not my idea of fun. Boring, claustrophobic, carbon ...
Florence and Tuscany
This is a top pick! 3rd-5th August Its Mandy hear, I'm giving Pete a rest as we have a few blogs to get through. We planned to go to Rome and the Amalfi Coast near Naples but after the craziness of Cinque Terre and Grossetto we decided to head towards Florence and ...
Rome, ruins and history
This is a top pick! We wake up in the center of the universe. At least that is what the Romans thought this city was about 2000 years ago. Although the hotel looked very comfortable at first, we found during the night that our queen size bed was actually two singles which ...
A day in Perugia
This is a top pick! Today we explore the buzzling center of Perugia. The city center is, as I mentioned before, not too big, and on top of a hill. The town is a student town as there are a couple of universities located here. First we have our breakfast at the hotel. Thank ...
The flight plan
This is a top pick! So I woke up this morning all exited to get to Munich this afternoon. I had been hearing a lot about snow and bad weather so i decided randomly to check the airports and guess what? There was no flight matching mine. Before getting worked up ...
Rome to Capua
This is a top pick! Due to my interest in the TV show "Spartacus", I just had to stop in Capua on the way to Naples. There is the second largest Roman amphitheater behind the Colosseum, and it is only 20 miles north of Naples, so why not? The route from Rome took me along ...
Train to the ferry
This is a top pick! ... at 9 in the morning. I’m telling you, I do not appreciate high humidity… The middle of the country in the south of Italy looks a lot like the dry, rolling hills of Califonia. At least what I saw from the train window did. It was also not so ...
venice
This is a top pick! ... wood. The bedside table next to our bed, constructed with the same material. Breathing the air of the old stones, I feel I am in Italy. Only here the air has a smell full of such history, full of such antiquity, fused with the vibrating waves of mobile ...
Layover in Rome...
This is a top pick! We have to leave to catch a ferry so we can make our flight to Rome and move on to Ibiza, even though neither of us wants to leave. We make it to the ferry JUST in time but get to the airport with plenty of time to spare before our flight. We ...
Under the Tuscan Sun -- mostly
This is a top pick! GETTING THERE We had originally planned to take a 3 week driving vacation around Italy back in May. Unfortunately, the demands of Melanie's job got in the way so we ended up splitting the vacation into 10 days in Central Europe (see July 31 entry) and 1 ...
Like Jonah
This is a top pick! Boarding the ferry to Livorno I felt as thought I was swallowed up. A boat almost twice the size of our last, but with even less passengers it was empty! I have been quite anxious about this part of our journey. Most likely it’s just ...