Written by airynfaerie on November 18, 2009
- "Vedo una croce sopra quella collina?" (Do I see a cross on that hill?), I asked to no one in particular while we were picking olives in Chianti one Sunday afternoon during the year we...
Written by airynfaerie on November 18, 2009
- On a Sunday afternoon during November of the year we lived in Florence we were invited to the countryside in Chianti to help pick olives. I was so excited about this because it was one...
Written by dkm1981 on November 11, 2009
- There are so many fascinating places to visit in Malta, that just one week wasn't enough to cover them all. However these are the places that we did visit and I believe that all of...
Written by dkm1981 on November 11, 2009
- My first experience with Malta was as a child and I had fond, if not a little vague, memories of it. It was with this in mind that I decided to take advantage of a...
Written by Magrico on November 6, 2009
- Just south of Lisbon, Setúbal has a lot to be proud of a. It is birthplace of the famous Chelsea soccer coach José Mourinho, the devilish Portuguese poet Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, and singer...
Written by MagdaDH on October 27, 2009
- Bergamo is a small city (or a large town) in Lombardy, about 40 km north-east of Milan almost in the foothills of the Alps and not too far from lake Como. It is the location...
Written by MagdaDH on October 26, 2009
- I have always wanted to visit Trieste: it's from Trieste that the heroes of my favourite adventure books of much childhood set on their first journey, it's Trieste that has been the gateway to the...
Written by travelswithkids on October 25, 2009
- We're suckers for the chance to walk on city walls, so we decided to drive over to Londonderry for a day of our Northern Ireland vacation. It is one of the few cities in...
Written by UK Flower Girl on October 12, 2009
- Mention Iceland and all sorts of images are conjured up. Ice-covered land, glaciers, wilderness, cold, volcanoes, geothermal activity to start. As an American living in the UK, I have flown over Iceland several...
Written by UK Flower Girl on October 10, 2009
- Tom, Sofia and I left our house for the 100 mile drive to Manchester Airport where we would be departing on Icelandair for the Keflavik Airport outside of Reykjavik. Everything went smoothly with check-in....
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