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Parma and Prosciutto...

A travel blog entry by kenee

Off to the opening of the annual Prosciutto Festival... and the Bologna countryside...

... before we head off to our apartment on an agriturismo in the Tuscan countryside for a week. We are really looking forward to taking it easy over the next week and slowing down a little. We will do day trips to nearby places like Florence, Siena and Sam Gimignano but other than we plan on getting our books out and relaxing a little! I don't think we will have Internet there so I may not be able to update the travel blog until we get to Assisi. Lots of love to you all ...

Lake Como to Parma

A travel blog entry by stephanierachel

... online somehow. Elijah slept the first hour or so which was really handy while we were navigating the busy streets of Como! We pulled into a highway restaurant and had some lunch and then let Eli run around for awhile. After that we only had another 45 minutes to go until we arrived at our destination. When we got off the main highway we went through another toll booth and Nath asked asked the guy how much we needed to pay and he said 'ticket!' and we realised ...

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 ...

Walking in Parma

A travel blog entry by smjulius

I took two long walks through Parma today.

The first was in the late morning, warm autumn sun. The kind of morning that is cold in the shade, but with no wind and few clouds. The ground was somewhat wet from residual rain debris. There were a couple of nice roads lined with tall, thin trees, which showed only the smallest signs of bareness on the tips of their branches. The Torrente Parma now has a ...