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Travel Blogs from Maratea
Looking for Audrey Hepburn
... He sternly refused. 2) About 30 K further down the road, we passed a young woman standing in a pullout with way to much makeup on for the daytime and dressed in a skintight short skirt and skintight tank top. Pretty much the way all the young women dress around here. I joked to Janet that she was working the pullout. Another 1 K down the road there was another woman in a pullout pretty much dressed the same, and then another ...
Maratea - A hilltop town with a difference
... questions they struggled to know the answers to - we are obviously not the normal tourists that come into the town...
One of the things we were keen to do was go and see the statue in person, although I was a little scared to go close to something so big and imposing, as it seemed that wherever you were in Maratea, the white statue was looming over you (and even glowing at night), so I suppose for our two days in Maratea, Christ was always with us...
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Praja
... from dad that my beautiful Gran had passed away. It was pretty hard to hear, especially being so far away, but it was nice to think about Gran and watch the sunset.
When we went back to the hostel it was loud! The stupid chick owner was dancing around the living room blaring music like an idiot, we found out later that when she turned 18 she asked her dad if she could turn the family home into a hostel. Her ...
A day of Leisure at Lake Maggiore
... listen to. I think we had a tour through 40+ rooms.
Outside, we had about an hours free time to have a look around the gardens. They were indeed 'bella'. We saw some white peacocks & one of them had chicks - so cute!!
There was a scenic vista point where you could get a good view of the lake and the gardens - I climbed up there. What was nice, there were boards with details of the history - so spent some time reading those. On ...
Lake Maggiore - via Lugano in Switzerland
... flowers. Had a walk to the small harbour, very quiet with hardly any people about :-).
Headed back to the coach and met up with the other people who were going up the mountain also. For everybody else who wasn't going, I was wondering how you would kill another 3 hours here?!
The cable car station was a half hours drive away from the town centre. The weather was getting increasingly overcast. We had an included lunch at the top of ...