Villa Regina

... trips for the students. This year, we tried to take it up a notch. Located very close to Boscocatrese, in Boscoreale, is the Villa Regina.  This is a Roman villa rustica, or farm villa.  We have seen it on the internet and talked with others ...

... #2 tram, and finally the 911 (after waiting forevere! Busses here definitely run by their own schedule...) to our hotel, Villa Maria Regina. We slept around 1, which has been our norm for quite some time now. Interesting tidbits: Parking in rome is ...

... on his bike and rode across town with us so we would know where to go to fix it in the moring.  He then brought us to the Villa Del Mar hotel, which was not in the same class as the Westin, but is about 1/10th of the price!   We had a fantastic ...

... Italian all around me as I took in the lovely view from my table of the Gran Madre di Dio church and the CLOSED Villa della Regina. What a tease! I then walked back to my hotel, not having found one single new Italian Job location, but I had enjoyed the ...

... now. It's amazing how much wealth there must have been during the 19th century. At the end of the walk we came to the Regina Hotel, where Matisse resided toward the end of the time he was in Nice.  It is a gigantic, ornate building . The museum ...

... Nice, including a look around nearby Cimiez where Queen Victoria spent part of her long vacations at the spectacular Hotel Regina. Then we strolled along the extrovert-laden beachside promenade, where we saw all sorts, including a well-proportioned woman ...