La Baghera Lamporecchio
Via Poggio alla Baghera, 36 Lamporecchio, Tuscany, 51035 , Italy
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B-e-a-utiful
Posted by Josh, details added by Kelli
After arriving late last night we decided to sleep in a little this morning. We got ready, found some pastries for breakfast and then it was off to conquer the Cinque Terre trail. The Cinque Terre is made up of five small villages that are each unique in its own sense. The town farthest north is a little over five miles (as the crow flies) to the town farthest south and they are all connected by a trail ...
Monterossa - I'm in Heaven
... statues - I've caught up the blog! Change of trains to Monterosso about 3 hours. We arrived about 3.30pm. It's very hard work carting luggage up and down steps at the stations, let alone storage of the luggage on the trains! It was a bit of a walk up to the accomodation along the waters edge, through a tunnel and there it was built into the side of a rocky hill. The day was overcast but the colour ...
The Travel Gods are Laughing at Me
... myself to the fact that I would have to be out walking around in too little clothing (yet again) for the next five hours. Anyway I made it to 2pm and I got a much needed nap in and as long as I can stay away from the Dragoon tonight it looks like it will be a good day of traveling even though for the second time in two days I have been given a ticket for the wrong city and will have to buy yet another one tomorrow. On an up note I had delicioso gelato and a gorgeous caprese for lunch. YAY!
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Florence (and making up for mosquito bites)
... Uffizi was made all the more enjoyable by the fact that they didn’t allow photos to be taken inside. Not only did we not have those around us stopping every 5 seconds to take a picture with no regard to the flow of people behind them, but it also meant I was forced to actually take my time and enjoy the art and not try and capture every cool painting (while respecting those behind me, obviously.) I also loved the fact that the art is all laid out chronologically. ...
Florence: A Renaissance Experience
... the hours the artists labored to complete these gargantuan works of art—particularly the way in which Botticelli masterfully captured the light, diaphanous quality of the robes on the goddesses in “The Birth of Venus” and “Spring.”
The most impressive body of work displayed was by a lesser-known female artist,Artemisia Gentileschi, who was influenced by the artistic styling of Caravaggio. Like ...


