What’s the difference between a hike and a walk?
Hike? Walk? What the heck is the difference between the two things? Both involve journeys–but for how long and how far? You decide!
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Category: Italy
Tantalizing Italian Food Not to Miss
Epicure, connoisseur, gourmet, foodie … whatever title you assign yourself, Italy is the place you...
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The Jackie & Rosemary Italian Road Show
Logically, Jackie asked, “Now what?” when we emerged from Italy’s Malpensa Airport to start...
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Planes and Trains—Skip automobiles when in Italy
When you’re ready enjoy to your Italian adventure, starting from the Malpensa Airport on the outskirts of Milan is a great launching pad. You zip to Milan Central Station and the country is waiting for you.
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Some Places are Balm for Your Soul
Places evoke emotions in us human beings. A small village in Italy—Manarola in the Cinque Terre—that has a profound effect on me. Manarola wraps itself around a visitor with colorful buildings, lyrical language, and food and wine to delight every palate. Each contribution it makes to the beauty of a day soothes your heart.
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Do We Really Experience Chance Encounters?
The setting: Cinque Terre National Park on the Italian Riviera. The hotel: La Torretta in...
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Dressing Advice for an American in Europe
The best advice for your maiden voyage—and all subsequent ones—to Europe from the USA is to travel light. Pack the week before, unpack, repack, keep going until that suitcase contains only the essentials. If you’ve really missed something? That means you get to buy something new!
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Wandering to Santa Margherita on the Red Carpet
If you don’t make it to a Hollywood bash to stroll the rolled-out red rug, try ambling along the...
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Surviving the Hike from Portofino to San Fruttuoso
Or, How I lost my favorite pink hat in the Italian woods…. Lorenzo & Silena on Portofino trail...
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A Notable and Truly Steep Hike in Rapallo, Italy
If there’s a hike to remember around Italy’s Rapallo coast, it’s from Nostra Signora di...
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In the Italian Riviera? Don’t skip Camogli!
One visit to Camogli, Italy leaves you eager to return. Even these two Americans, notorious for...
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Rapallo, Italy – a Poetic Promenade of People
Travel is about the new and exploring Rapallo, Italy provides a whole world of new from food, to people-watching, and critiquing the drivers trying to park.
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RoseMary Griffith
