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Travel Blogs from Parma

Overnighter in Parma

A travel blog entry by lasthours

Getting used to the driving. good roads, put UK to shame mostly. Not sure the GPS was helpful or not but we didn't get lost. Found the hotel. Absolutely nothing like the pictures and the room they gave us was noisy on the motorway. But they changed it for us no problem. Clever marketing on their website! Fancy dinner restaurant but slightly …

Parma

A travel blog entry by stephanierachel

... long day of driving is a bit too much with a toddler. So it all worked out well in the end :) We managed to tag along on a tour of the castle next door. The tour guide spoke in Italian so we had no clue what she was saying so we ended up just wandering off and having a quick look around. The castle was built in the 1400's and was still in really good condition. The rooms were all decked out with old furniture, paintings, swords etc which was really neat. It ...

Lake Como to Parma

A travel blog entry by stephanierachel

... nearby and see if they had a vacancy so we said that would be great! It turned out they did have a room for us so she gave us their address and we headed off on our way! We arrived at Locanda del Re Guerriero in San Pietro in Cerro, which happened to be a really old stone building overlooking an old castle right next door! We were given such a beautiful room, with wonderful views of the castle from both our windows. One thing we have been incredibly blessed with ...

Florence and Carpi

A travel blog entry by myrnawebster

After breakfast we headed into Firenze (florence). OMG, the traffic was nothing like I have ever seem. Kent is so good at the quick decisions needed. Sometimes we get to a place where you have to decide left or right? Quick, which way do we go - straightahead is not an option. Some places the street just empties into a huge plaza with no lines and streets exiting inall directions and cars heading wherever. There are lots of parking (big letter P) signs ...

Parma, qui dit fromage et jambon, dit bonne ville?

A travel blog entry by nordes

... en plus il n'y a pas de quoi s'occuper � Parme � part la bouffe.

19h30, heure de l'ap�ro (qui ne prend pas d'ap�ro en Italie se voue � mourir de faim avant le d�ner qui est aux environs de 21h). Une fois ap�ro termin�e, je me suis balad� pour un nouveau repas du soir... la mort... une bouteille de vin rouge de la r�gion... du jambon de parme et un risotto au fromage de parme... On m'a toujours dit qu'il ...