Traveling to Italy: Friuli-Venezia Giulia or Tuscany?
Friuli could be the next Tuscany. It has everything any holidaymaker to Italy would want: rolling hills, forests, mountains, skiing, vineyards, castles, history, medieval towns, beaches, hot springs,...
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Eating in Italy: The Heart of Roman Food
Locals bustle around the market picking out fresh vegetables and carry on in conversations in Italian with the shop stall owners; the ease in the conversations lets you know that they’ve known each...
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Venice Italy: Things to Do, See, Eat & More
My arrival in Venice was a bit bleak as I looked out the train window. “It can’t rain on my short 4 days in Venice! I have too many fun tips to do for it to rain!” I thought. Venice was the second...
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Hops From Venice: Colorful & Vibrant Murano, Burano & Cemetary Islands
“You have to go to the islands! You have to go to the islands!” everyone kept telling me. Clearly they didn’t fully appreciate my neurosis regarding how stubborn I am. I can’t help it, if everyone...
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Back to Italy for More Italian-ness
An extremely self-made man, it doesn’t come as a surprise to most who meet me that I’ve become rather libertarian in my political viewpoints. Nonetheless, my friend Francesco was aghast at what I told...
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When There’s a Little Bit of Texas in Italy
Texans are big on Italian food, but for many years, I could count the number of fellow Texans I knew who’d been to Italy on one hand. It wasn’t until the day I made the acquaintance of a man named...
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Take a Visual Walk Through Italy With Me: You Won’t Be Disappointed!
I have traveled to some of the most far-flung places in the world and it it’s off the beaten path, it’s at the top of my travel bucket list. And yet Italy, whose paths are among...
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Local Colors & Adventure At The Cinque Terre
The smell of trofie pasta, topped with basil pesto kisses the Mediterranean air. Delizioso! The fast chit-chat of the local Italians tickles your ear. Ciao, Ciao! The brightly colored, pastel houses...
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A Top Ten List & Guide To Planning The Perfect Trip To Italy
Italy is a country of contradictions. It’s among the most ubiquitous tourist destinations of our day, yet it is strangely impenetrable to outsiders. Although Italy’s coastlines are some of the most...
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The Magic & Serene Beauty of Italy’s Cinque Terre
Fishing boats on the Italian Riviera in Cinque Terre 1. Why Cinque Terre? On my Italy adventure, one of the regions I visited was Cinque Terre. Having no real reason to visit other than to see the...
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A Visual Tour Through Italy
I met Adriana for coffee near her apartment just east of the Colosseum. Her neighborhood, in spite of its proximity to Italy’s—to Europe’s—most famous building, is not especially touristic. “Rome is...
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Planning a Trip to Italy
Does it get any better than travel to Italy? I’ve been visiting this country almost since I started traveling, and at every phase of my life—and I’ve never stopped loving it. Of course, Italy is not...
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