Bella Italia

Bella Italia, The Old Country - we hope this blog will give you a "taste" from the provenance of the modern world. It's incredible history and culture having given rise to some of the mankind's greatest creative inspirations- not the least of them ...

Bella Italia!

I hope you'll enjoy my pictures and maybe one or two of you will actually dare to attempt our roadtrip. It's an experience you'll never forget and memories you'll never regret. Yours, Schlossie

Buon giorno amici miei After a 16 hour flight from BA to Rome, via Madrid, my father and I finally arrived in Bella Italia, to be greeted at the airport by my cousin Marco, wife Pina, daughter Sabrina, and her rabbit Milo. I haven't seen Marco for over ...

... . Algo parecido hicimos también con el tiramisu, pero en este caso no hay con que darle; el mejor tiramisu está en Italia! Para terminar con el itinerario tuvimos más catedrales, fuimos al Pantheon, y nos dimos el gustito de visitar el museo ...

Heavy traffic around Seattle.  After 3500 miles across the U.S., we made it to Port Angeles.  Ate dinner at Bella Italia where Bella and Edward ate .  Sadly, Bella and Edward were not there tonight.  Port Angeles is a very quaint city ...

WOW! La Bella Italia!!!! It's one week and 1 day since I landed in Milano, and I'm still smiling about everything I see and everywhere I go. The people I meet are soooo amazingly simple, kind and authentically Italianos!!!  I feel like a child, ...

My time with Lucia in Sardinia was amazing. We started the night out in Alghero where we ate one 1 meter long pizza, without skipping a beat, in this really cool Jazz Pub. Mama Mia! It was soooooooo good! The next morning, still completely stuffed, we ...

Through the serene hills whose paths were united by dark brick tunnels, we sped across the highway toward Lanciano.  I had read up a bit and learned that Lanciano was an ancient Roman city whose archaic name was Anxanum and founded in 1181 BC, but ...

I've always had idyllic memories about Italy.  I remember Italy in the summer of '94 when I was a blooming teenager, stealing secret smiles from handsome Italian boys in the crooked streets of Rome; being turned down at St. Peters Basilica by ...

Flat beach awaited me with most sections on cycle paths or not busy roads, meaning that by the followign day I had arrived in Rimini, and then next day could push on into the countryside. The long stretches of sea were in no way a distraction, being a ...

Well today I definitely earned my gelato, and a lot more. I ended up hiking almost all of the trail between the five towns in the Cinque Terre. The whole trail is 9 km and I went 8 km, which is about 5 miles. But a couple sections had lots and lots of ...

Hallo und Buon Giorno! Nachdem mich nun mehrfach Freunde gefragt haben, warum ich keinen Blog mache bzw. mich gebeten haben einen zu machen, kommt hier nun das Ergebnis ;) Also viel Spaß beim Lesen! 09.02.2011- 5 Uhr: der Wecker klingelt. Ich ...

As we crossed the border into Italy it was soon very evident we were in Italy - crazy drivers, less perfect looking houses (no chalets), pizzerias on every corner, people relaxing over coffees, gelatos and wine on every street corner and narrower, scary ...

I have been lucky enough to travel Italy several times in my life time.  This was another super fun trip around the Tuscany area of Italy.  Oh, Tuscany, one of the most beautiful places in the ...

Découvrez dès à présent un bout de chemin que j'ai parcouru doucement, à l'ancienne, pas à pas.  Cette route romaine et ancestrale s'appelle la Via Francigena.  Ici je vous conduis de Bolsena à la Cité du Vatican. Par la ...

Yay, we got here without any issues!  Ian tells me that Rachelle is good luck while travelling and it seems to be true so far.  We managed to score seats together on the plane, we arrived into Venice on time (Ryanair actually make an ...

Some people find Rome daunting and overwhelming because of its history. I was overwhelmed but in a good way. I must admit that I fell into the tourist trap and acted just like everyone else when my sister and I visited Rome. We went to most, if not, all ...

It was hot, very hot.  And there was no air conditioning on the train.  None.  We were grumpy, very grumpy.  Luckily we had a quick stop off in Bologna scheduled for lunch.  Ate drank and beed merry...only to get back into the ...