Destination: Italy
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Sun, 16 Sep 2007 | By simon_monk | Views [574]
There really can't be too many places left in the world where the background noise of the motorcar has been thankfully banished leaving laughter and footsteps to drift up from narrow alleys and bells to resonate across the tiled roofs. After arriving ... Read more >
Tags: travel with children, venice, family, adventures
Sun, 21 Jan 2007 | By gentlesue | Views [854] | Comments [12]
Hello Everyone, We have been gone for 2 weeks and have 1 week left or there abouts. The further along in the trip we go the quicker everything seems to whiz by. Amsterdam lasted forever and Rome just whizzed by. SO far we have stayed in Amsterdam, ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 | By anijensen | Views [105] | Comments [7]
We blew back across Hungary in one day, spent a night in Graz, Austria, then pushed down South to spend four days in Padua, Italy. The first afternoon we explored Padua on foot, and had our first exciting restaurant episode in Italy: Anita expected ... Read more >
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 | By nico | Views [437]
In Alabama abbiamo scelto Montgomery dove nel 1955 esplose il movimento dei diritti civili poiche' una sarta nera di nome Rosa Parks si rifiuto' di cedere il suo posto a un uomo bianco su un autobus urbano.Il suo fu' un gesto decisivo,che cambio' la storia ... Read more >
Tue, 2 Sep 2008 | By matt_and_mercaders | Views [529] | Comments [5]
This story is dedicated to Terry Summerbell. 5 nights in Rome is quite a while so we thought a day at the local waterpark might be fun. Travelling is about doing stuff,we were told, rather than simply seeing stuff. So we set off on our journey - i´d ... Read more >
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 | By allwelcome | Views [320] | Comments [5]
Of course, it didn’t help that I saw a rat on the first evening. We were drinking wine out side a local bar and I saw the thing trying to get into any doorway that let him in. It was only one, and nothing like India, but iiiiik. You probably ... Read more >
Tags: rats, water
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 | By stowaway | Views [944] | Comments [4]
Hang on, it's Wednesday.... so I'm in... (checks watch) .... well it's 4am in the morning in Sydney anyway (note to self: much change watch to local time, after finding out where I am & what day it is).
I'm pretty sure I'm in Rome today, there ... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing, italy, rome, cistene chapel, colosseum, piza, pizza, pompei
Fri, 23 May 2008 | By phil_misty | Views [167] | Comments [4]
IL Bacio
This delightfully sun filled morning could possibly taste of orange
sherbet. Birds in chorus, round-bellied
bumble bees buzzing bud to bud, leafs greener than fresh limes dance in the
warm breeze. Today is summer!
... Read more >
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 | By matt_and_mercaders | Views [624] | Comments [3]
Florence is home of the paintings of Botticelli, the sculptures of Michaelangelo and also some renowned architecture (sorry, didn't pick up the names). It is also the capital of the region of Tuscany and home of Dr. Lecter in the film Hannibal. ... Read more >
Wed, 27 May 2009 | By kaplan | Views [79] | Comments [3]
Hoy me siento feliz. No sólo porque mi equipo ha ganado, sino porque ha hecho un partido que difícilmente olvidaré. Tanto que, por momentos y en el transcurso del encuentro, hasta me daba igual el resultado. Y para que esto suceda la cosa tiene que estar ... Read more >
Tags: cosasquenadatienenquever
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By jamie_candice | Views [196] | Comments [2]
We sussed out the buses in the city and jumped on the city sightseeing bus tour around Rome to all the touristy sights. We saw the Colosseum, St Peters at the Vatican, the Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, Piazza Venezia (Has a HUGE horse statue out the front) ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sat, 17 May 2008 | By phil_misty | Views [145] | Comments [2]
Roman
Streets
Narrow
streets with Smartcar size automobiles, a magnitude of pedestrians, forest
green painted residential doors in between glass and open-air storefronts. Architecture on either side of my pathway
almost always ... Read more >
Sat, 17 Oct 2009 | By jimandnicadventure | Views [59] | Comments [5]
Friday
16 th October
Taormina
It
was a wet and wild night. The storm front hit early this morning and
as our hotel is on the edge of the cliff, it felt like we were hit
with ... Read more >
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 | By bec-simon | Views [35] | Comments [2]
Simon and I caught the overnight train from Munich to Rome. Not a bad way to travel, although our train had no bar cart, and although we toughed it out without a beer for the whole night (I think the Germans have rubbed off on us - sorry Joergfried, ... Read more >
Tags: roma, overnight train, vatican, sistine chapel, pope
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 | By htapawaso | Views [119] | Comments [5]
Firenze! Without a doubt the most beautiful place I have ever been, and it has not diminished at all in the 18 months since I've been here. I have been quite ill, which makes getting around an immensely unenjoyable task. Straight off the train ... Read more >
Thu, 14 Dec 2006 | By all_powered_up | Views [735] | Comments [1]
It doesn't sound good for Naples - the descriptions are 'dirty' and 'crime ridden'. Well dirty it definitely is, full of scooters pumping out fumes, rubbish on the streets and grubby grey scenery. But it has such a vibe, it's bursting with life and ... Read more >
Tags: volcano
Sun, 28 Oct 2007 | By connaughty | Views [272] | Comments [1]
After the Camino I had planned to visit Barcelona, but my heart was already in Italy, so I found myself "a Roma." My brothers (Pier, Marco, Valerio) took special care of me. I had been to Rome many times when I lived in Florence, but seeing ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
Mon, 5 Nov 2007 | By bkhk4fun | Views [258] | Comments [1]
Amy: It is too bad that Rome has so many must see sights. My impression of the city was it was too crowded, dirty and the drivers were crazy. It did not give me a good first impression of Italy. As we left Rome and got closer to the Province of Siena ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 | By devinashley | Views [198] | Comments [1]
So, our emails were along teh lines of 'We will meet you in front of the bell tower at San Marcos at 6.00. We will wait until 6.20 and if we dont see you then we will come back at 8.00 and 10.00pm.' So, we didnt catch him at 6.00, therfore we went ... Read more >
Thu, 6 Aug 2009 | By mella_ron_2009 | Views [86] | Comments [1]
Mella's the name, Stripy's the hair and Fizzy's the nature. i tend to be seduced by overwhelming passions for Random things; they never seem to last more than a few months. it's the funnest way to get through life, i think! my latest is photography.... Read more >
Fri, 14 Aug 2009 | By dan_and_anna | Views [34] | Comments [1]
Ahh
Venice... After an excruciating 12 hour journey in the most
uncomfortable bus in the world we arrived at the best camp site
Europe had to offer! (it may not be the case but if you compared it
to the others this ... Read more >
Sun, 21 Jun 2009 | By htapawaso | Views [104] | Comments [4]
Rome. Rome? Rome. Well I've been in Rome for... 4 or 5 days now. Been nice. My first full day... I slept. And ate cereal. My second full day... I went to the Roman ruins - the Collosseum, Circus Maximus, the Palatine, the Forum. Enjoyable.... Read more >
Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | By daniel_lams | Views [916]
The target was a smal town along the amalficoast, called Positano. It´s knowned as "the pearl of the Amalfi Coast". It´s in the south part of Italy, close Neapel.
Well, Waooo! Loved it! Go there! :)
Information
The Amalfi Drive may be Southern ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 | By vivienne_and_iona | Views [276] | Comments [3]
SO after a not very exciting series of flights from santorini to rome, and a very expensive train ride into the centre of town (but what were we to do? not go into rome? ha!), we arrived at Termini Station and realised we knew the name of our hostel ... Read more >
Fri, 21 Aug 2009 | By dan_and_anna | Views [106]
Pompeii
– On our way to the amazing Greek island of Corfu, the tour lead us
on an amazing journey to the amazing city of Pompeii... Pompeii was
destroyed by the volcanic explosion of Mt Vesuvius in 79 AD and as a
result ... Read more >
