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Italy Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Italy
In Transit to Slovenia
This is a top pick! ... sailed at 7.30pm and I had a very peaceful night's sleep. We were due to dock at 10am. I was on deck quite early to watch Italy approach out of the mist. We were outside the harbour at 9.30 but had to wait for a container ship to leave. All the passengers ...
la dolce vita - Rome in a day
This is a top pick! Day 10 (Rome) - 27 October 2007 Up early yet again and out on the front deck as we approach Civitavecchia. Quite a few ships in port and another following us in. Head into harbour and pass Galaxy. Directly ahead of us is a ...
Venezia
This is a top pick! Our journey slowly but surely was coming to an end. We arrived at the ferry parking lot after following the signs towards Venice. I've been searching for hours to find the location of our hotel again, but I can't ...
Capo Vaticano
This is a top pick! ... writing the review, you'll get only my part of the story. I found prices in this part of Italy quite cheap, a glass of wine for 2.00 EUR? After staying in Florence & Rome your wallet will voice a sigh ...
Venice
This is a top pick! ... for the nice weather to visit Venice. I was expecting to be disappointed this time as I had loved Venice so much last time I was in Italy. But the weather was lovely (high 20's and sunny), and, though crowded in parts, it is easy to find quiet areas. And ...
Canals and Bridges
This is a top pick! We woke up early to get ready to head of to Venice. My cousin Sylvia and her husband Dieter and their kids were also leaving for their vacation to Canada today to see family, so they get to see my (James') niece and everyone at home before we do, we are ...
Tuscan country side
This is a top pick! ... But it brings us to where we have to go, and it had a little diesel engine, so it could probably drive us up and down Italy without refueling. Not that that is the plan, as Poggibionsi is only an hour out of Florence. It took us a bit to find the ...
Coffee breaks
This is a top pick! 27.7.06 La Spezia, Italy Drove to La Spezia and Chinque Terre Italy for a break from the motorway and our own coffee and biscuits. Every morning Lynn and I each prepare a thermos for coffee stops along the way. This is a beautiful section of coast, ...
Museumus Giganticious
This is a top pick! ... it almost, just almost, makes you want to scream. That coupled with the mopeds and almost endless Police & ambulance sirens, makes Italy one noisy place. · Well rested Between Friday (our first night in the city) and Saturday night (my birthday) we ...
Bold and Italicized
This is a top pick! ... ). In fact, Rick Steves and Under the Tuscan Sun have almost single-handedly filled these two particular areas of Italy with Americans scuttling around on frantic two week trips eating pesto in unhealthy amounts, stomping around the paved streets in giant ...
Florence day 3
This is a top pick! Phew, another scorcher today!!! I ate a tasty cheese panini for brekkie and then headed off slowly into the city. My calves were killing me from the 9 hours of walking and standing I did yesterday so the pace today today was gonna have to be ...
Bologna ... it's more than just sandwich meat
This is a top pick! ... inexpensive and the perfect complement. While in America, people tend to think drinking at lunch makes you an alcoholic, in Italy it is perfectly acceptable. Living in an Italian city without many tourists meant we really did need to know some words ...
Straighten Up
This is a top pick! ... well and we've had no issues thus far in the country communicating with the locals. Btw, the ability to speak English in Italy grants you certain privileges (don't know what they are though) and puts you higher in the social pecking order. But that's the ...
Torino Ice 2005
This is a top pick! The European Figure Skating Championships were going to be in Turin at the end of January and it's probably the closest I'll ever get to the Worlds or Olympics, so I decided to go. We'd been to Turin before so I wasn't too worried that I would be ...
FOCUS OF TRIP: MEDITATION
This is a top pick! ... have no ambition. Maybe I wouldn´t have to pay for a ferry off Corsica, and I could just levitate myself back to Italy, during a really good samadhi? I think the world that awaits the meditator is as vast and amazing as the one we want and think ...
The Renaissance Migraine
This is a top pick! ... the last entry was 'ossified' when describing its status within the country) and thus we feel we didn't see the 'real' Italy, albeit still with a serious touristy twist, until we got here to Florence. Therefore, we suspect our following observations from ...
Florence and more damn tourists
This is a top pick! Well, I hadn't forgotten one thing about camping in the summer - you can't get a lie-in:it was like a swedish sauna by about 8.30am. So it was a quick shower and then off into the city centre. I decided to walk it rather than taking the bus, ...
Buono Pasqua
This is a top pick! The Cinque Terre or the 5 lands in English. Beautiful, quaint fishing villages clinging to the side of the sheer rock faces as the Mediterranean gentle laps the base of those cliffs. Over-run with American tourists but also a fave for ...
Livin' La Dolce Vita
This is a top pick! ... Italy couldn't treat us any better, we arrived at La Cerreta on June 1. Before leaving the states, we had joined Italy's WorldWide Opportunities on Organic Farms (see www.wwoof.it for more info). WWOOF arranges opportunities for city slickers like us to ...
Off to the center of the universe (Rome)
This is a top pick! We have a late checkout today, and that is a good thing as our train to Rome leaves around six o clock. In the morning I do some work while Linda is researching our options for Greece or Turkey. And before we know it it is noon already. We had our minds ...
Pisa and Cinque Terre
This is a top pick! Good news is I got the apartment. I start Italian lessons tomorrow morning, and move into the apartment in the afternoon. The sisters, Adele and Elena, seem really nice. I spent the weekend hiking between the villages in Cinque Terre, and stopped off in ...
Largo di Garda
This is a top pick! ... ;of the route my husband and I took in 2003, but I'll also include a bit of the information I know from previous Italy trips. I hope you enjoy yourselves!*** ...
All roads lead to Rome
This is a top pick! All roads lead to Rome, so the story goes. And a lot of stories Rome has! This ancient city was built on thousands of years of mythology, bloodshed, heroes, villains, crazy eccentric rulers and inventors to what today is a probably one of the most ...