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ITALY | Sun, 16 Aug 2009 | By worldfestivals | Views [109] | Video
Location: Grande Piazza, Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy Dates: Penultimate Saturday in June and first Sunday in September Level of Participation: 3 – don some breeches and watch the jousters charge Description:... Read more >
Tags: italy, world festivals, joust of the saracen
ITALY | Sun, 16 Aug 2009 | By worldfestivals | Views [101] | Video
Location: Castello, Venice, Italy Dates: First Sunday in September Level of Participation: 2 – watch the Venetians row like it’s 1489 Description: These rowing races on the Grand Canal commemorate ... Read more >
Tags: italy, regata storica, world festivals
ITALY | Thu, 16 Jul 2009 | By worldfestivals | Views [88] | Video
Location: Il Campo, Siena, Tuscany, Italy Dates: 2 July and 16 August Level of Participation: 3 – lay a bet and smell the nervous sweat Description: The Italians’ factional tendencies can be ... Read more >
Tags: italy, world festivals, il palio
ITALY | Mon, 22 Jun 2009 | By true-claims-stories | Views [170]
My friend and I were trekking around Italy in this beat-up junker clunker of a van. We were stopped in Casal Borsetti for the evening and sleeping soundly in the back. Around 4 a.m. we were awakened by someone breaking in to the front of the van.... Read more >
Tags: italy, theft, true claim stories, insurance claim, travel insurance, world nomads, road trip
ITALY | Mon, 18 May 2009 | By worldfestivals | Views [78] | Video
Location: Palazzo Medici, Pisa, Italy Dates: 17 June Level of Participation: 1 – gasp at the paliotto scramble Description: Venice may be famous for its gondolas, but across the country, ... Read more >
Tags: italy, regatta of st. ranieri, world festivals
ITALY | Tue, 14 Apr 2009 | By worldfestivals | Views [382] | Video
Location: Cocullo, Italy Dates: First Thursday in May Level of Participation: 2 – be happy to watch the snakes from a distance Description: The feast of St Domenic might sound fairly tame, but that’s only until you throw in a writhing nest ... Read more >
Tags: italy, cocullo, festival of the snakes, world festivals
ITALY | Wed, 18 Mar 2009 | By nadscol | Views [102]
Another train ride and we arrived in Rome. I’m getting sick of trains. We made our way to the hostel we had booked earlier. It was cosy and small and in aback street just off one of the main drags. Lovely place, good price- if you are in Rome and need ... Read more >
Tags: italy
ITALY | Fri, 6 Mar 2009 | By nadscol | Views [133] | Comments [1]
The train ride to Padova was long and frustrating. We were sitting directly across from a small child who seemed to seriously believe that 2 hours of continuous kicking, leg swinging and whinging were the best way to enjoy such a journey. I was very ... Read more >
Tags: italy
ITALY | Fri, 6 Mar 2009 | By nadscol | Views [113] | Comments [1]
I have finally made it to Italy- after all this time! Home of pizza, pasta, risotto, gelato and lots of Italian people. The wait had been much too long. We arrived in Milan after another very long train ride. We found our way to our hotel after only ... Read more >
Tags: italy
USA | Fri, 27 Feb 2009 | By jjassen | Views [178] | Comments [2]
After rome, I traveled with a guy from the USA to Sicily, where we
toured both Palermo and Agrigento in a lightning-quick fashion before
headng east on the island to Catania, which I like a great, great deal.
Once again, the hostel means so much.... Read more >
Tags: catania, hector, italy, sicily, italian, language
USA | Wed, 25 Feb 2009 | By jjassen | Views [143] | Comments [1]
Two night and three days in Rome later, decided it was time to see a different aspect of Italy. Matt felt the same, (although between you and me (and I've decided not to share the existence of my blog with any of my fellow travellers, since I might ... Read more >
Tags: catania, italy
ITALY | Wed, 25 Feb 2009 | By jjassen | Views [123] | Comments [1]
My hostel method of only booking one night at a time worked extremely well in this case. The Yellow Room, my 7th hostel, was terrible. No common rooms, no kitchen. So I booked my second night in the same hostel as the Irish couple, called Freedom Traveller.... Read more >
Tags: rome, italy, roma, roman, italian
AUSTRALIA | Sat, 31 Jan 2009 | By keith_austin | Views [301] | Comments [2]
We are in our final days here now and our attention is turning towards the overnight rail trip we are taking to Paris on Sunday night. But a few thoughts first on Venetian mysteries: Where are all those many little old ladies in perms and fur coats ... Read more >
Tags: keith austin, popsi bubblehead, venice, italy, lido, murano, glass, detachable penis, rick steves, rick stein
ITALY | Sat, 17 Jan 2009 | By worldfestivals | Views [137] | Video
Location: Ivrea, Italy. The battle takes place in the town’s main square. Dates: Concludes on Shrove Tuesday Level of Participation: 2 – though the battle officially involves only the teams, if you happen to slip on ... Read more >
Tags: battle of the oranges, italy, world festivals
ITALY | Sat, 17 Jan 2009 | By worldfestivals | Views [49]
Location: Terni, Italy. The feast takes place outside the Basilica di San Valentino. Dates: Throughout February, but particularly 14 February Level of Participation: 5 – the feast, and whatever other St Valentine’s ... Read more >
Tags: italy, st. valentines day, world festivals
ITALY | Fri, 17 Oct 2008 | By worldfestivals | Views [126]
Location: Rocca Canterano, Italy Dates: November Level of Participation: 2 – watch the actors lampoon the love-sick Description: With all that unbridled passion flowing in Italy, there have ... Read more >
Tags: italy, world festivals
ITALY | Thu, 16 Oct 2008 | By larasumera | Views [185] | Comments [2]
It's going to be harder than I expected to keep this up. I'll try my best, though! And I'll also do my best to abbreviate! Currently I am using free internet at Brittnay's friend's place in Rome. We are so blessed to be here on our first night with ... Read more >
Tags: roma, italy, rome
ITALY | Wed, 25 Jun 2008 | By tinka | Views [260]
We left the searing heat of Venice for the muggy melting-ness of Rome. It was a long drive down, but when we finally got there we found out that this was indeed “A party place peoples!”. There where Contiki Buses everywhere.. Anywho we set up as ... Read more >
Tags: suntan, st. peters, italy, gelato, cookies, oreos, dark side
ITALY | Sun, 22 Jun 2008 | By tinka | Views [271]
We traveled by coach from the lovely Austrain Alps; said “Goodbye” to the cold weather (with some relief it must be admitted, although the area was so beautiful) and “Ciao Bella!” to the gorgeous 30 degree + sunshine and clear skies of warm, wonderful ... Read more >
Tags: venice, italy, gondalas, beach, sunburn
ITALY | Sat, 7 Jun 2008 | By italy_wanderer | Views [164]
ITALY means I Trust and Love You
Tags: italy
GREECE | Wed, 24 Oct 2007 | By celineo | Views [554]
23/05/2007 - En Italie L'Italie On en garde de très beau souvenir. En Suisse c'était surtout la rencontre avec la nature. Très changeante. Le passage des cols nous avaient beaucoup marque. Et on campait facilement. En Italie on ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, italy
ITALY | Tue, 17 Apr 2007 | By dartagnan | Views [43]
It's a known fact that Florence houses one of the best museums in the world, the Uffizi. My guidebook said that Uffizi has the largest collection of Renaissance art in the world. Well, obviously. I would be disappointed if it had at least one artwork ... Read more >
Tags: museum, culture, arts, uffizi, florence, italy, boticelli, birth of venus, museo de accademia, david
ITALY | Mon, 16 Apr 2007 | By dartagnan | Views [69] | Comments [2]
I was a boy scout with a mission when I woke up on my second day in Florence. I will go where few Filipinos have ventured before. I will go to a little obscure town named Montevarchi. All for the one thing we mortals cannot resist to do when we travel, ... Read more >
Tags: prada, montevarchi, italy, outlet, shopping, taxi, cab
ITALY | Sun, 15 Apr 2007 | By dartagnan | Views [103]
Goodbye Rome as I checked out of my hotel, took a cab to Termini and rode the train to Florence. Florence was the first stop to this train ride that actually would go to Milan. Like all my train rides in Italy, this was also a non event, except that ... Read more >
Tags: rome, florence, culture, italy, sightseeing, train, david, duomo, trattoria, ponte vecchio
ITALY | Sat, 14 Apr 2007 | By dartagnan | Views [64]
I really thought long and hard on how to spend my last full day in Rome. I have seen all the major tourist traps and I wanted none of it anymore. So I decided to catch a train to Pisa. So off to Termini I went, bought myself a ticket and waited for ... Read more >
Tags: train, pisa, leaning tower, termini, italy
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