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A dazed day in Elba.
Portoferraio, Elba Portoferraio greeted us with bright sunshine and a beautiful view of the local port. Behind this stands the Porta a Mare gate, which dates back to 1637 and is shadowed by rugged mountains. The ship docked right in the town and it was immediately accessible for exploration on foot. Elba was rich in iron that made it very attractive to the Etruscans and Romans for sword making and was a highly desired stronghold for mediterranean powers? Elba achieved fame though as ...
Isola d'Elba, Toscana
... che con i suoi 1018 mt di granito si vede da tutta l’isola, magari salendo anche al monte Perone.Un terzo giorno faremo il giro delle “due code del pesce” cui l’isola assomiglia, da Porto Azzurro a Rio Elba e Rio Marina, dove sono presenti le strutture del parco minerario, per andare anche a Capoliveri o magari al monte Calamita (strada bianca). I giornoPortoferraio va fatta a piedi. Lasciando il camper ad uno dei grossi parcheggi vicino ai ...
Dolce fa niente
... and their beautiful daughter Tara-Marie. For most of the journey, we hugged the stunning west coast of Italy, reaching the northern part of Tuscany after a few hours. The combined sights of colourful old buildings of the many small towns we passed through, green hills towering inland and the sea out of the train window were enough to restore all faith in the beauty of Italy after the slight disappointment of Milan.
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Digging a Roman Villa
... The Principal Investigator Archaeologists spent the first morning training us in safety and the proper way to do Archeology. They then took us to the archeology site of Poggio el Molino - a roman villa. We were given an introductory tour then started digging. We dug for 8 hours each day and found lots of pottery shards, roof tiles, glass, nails etc. We learned how to dig a ...
GOODBUY ISOLA d ELBA
... book on authentic old time French food. Nothing to do with ol' Naps place. It did get a little confusing though. So we walk up the long cobbled road to a magnificent mansion only to discover it was closed Mondays. Ohh rats. Never mind, gives us something to come back to next time !! J
We head to the ferry terminal with no signs to say which ferry went back to the mainland. Steve asked a ferry man who scanned the ticket but didn’t say which terminal I think ...