At the start of June, I spent a long weekend in the company of friends and my family down in the stunningly beautiful Cinque Terre area of the Liguria coast in northern Italy. I took a few photographs of Monterosso, one of the Cinque Terre, while the rest of the group lounged around on the … [Read more...]
Knowing Italy – Le Cinque Terre
June 7, 2010 By 6 Comments
When I came to Italy well over ten years ago, I was not really aware of all Italy had to offer. I knew of the legendary big three Italian destinations: Rome, Venice and Florence, and, purely as a result of having seen the photographs of a colleague, I was aware of the stunning beauty of the Amalfi … [Read more...]
Crystal Ball Gazing – Techno Travel
March 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Recently I've been contacted by two emerging new travel sites - Volette.com and So Much World. Both are very interesting, but quite different in their takes on travel.Volette is perhaps more aimed at the business traveller, but not only, whereas So Much World is more like an on-line version of my … [Read more...]
Roccaraso Ski Resort, Abruzzo, Italy – Skiing off the beaten piste.
November 23, 2007 By 7 Comments
I have several friends from the south of Italy, but I was rather surprised to learn that one of them, Ciro, is an avid skier, who spent his ski holidays not far from Naples.I imagined that he must have made annual pilgrimages for ski holidays to northern Italy to learn to do his thing. He … [Read more...]
Summer Hols 2007, part 3.
September 13, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Sorry about the time it took me to get round to writing about this - I got carried away on other stuff.Seeing as the weather had been holding up, towards the end of week one of our Tuscany 2007 holidays we decided to go for a day-long boat trip (35 Euros, with lunch, I think it was) along the … [Read more...]
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