Destination: Italy

Photos: Spending more than a Mo in Bergamo

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 | By steve_and_emma | Photo Gallery

7 week trip with a 30 Litre daypack

Fri, 2 Dec 2022 | By pauluiza | Views [2927]

How we packed for a 7 week trip with only hand luggage We are good at minimalist travel. If you have been following us for a while, you know from 2010 to 2012, we backpacked through 35 countries for 2 years, seven months and 4 days. We also travelled ... Read more >

Photos: Italy - Basilicata and Apulia

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 | By pauluiza | Photo Gallery

Italy - Basilicata and Apulia

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 | By pauluiza | Views [291]

Matera, Molfetta, Bari & Alberobello (Basilicata & Apulia, Italy): 5 trains and 12 hours, it better be worth it We wake up very early (thanks Giovanni for the great coffee and coffee machine) and make our way to the train station. We are ... Read more >

Photos: Italy - Calabria

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 | By pauluiza | Photo Gallery

Italy - Calabria - Reggio, Tropea and Scilla

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 | By pauluiza | Views [454]

Reggio di Calabria, Tropea, & Scilla (including the fishing village of Chianalea) - (Calabria, Italy): Jaw dropping beaches & dramatic hanging villages Next morning, we wake up early again and after a 2.5 hour train ride, we catch our 30 ... Read more >

Photos: Italy - Sicily

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 | By pauluiza | Photo Gallery

Italy - Sicily - Catania, Taormina, Siracusa, Palermo and Cefalú

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 | By pauluiza | Views [368]

Catania, Taormina, Siracusa, Palermo & Cefalú (Sicily, Italy): A foodie paradise and the Sicilian breathtaking coastline We take a flight to Catania in Sicily our base to explore this region. We then take a bus just outside the airport ... Read more >

Cruising in the Time of Covid

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [356]

EVERY CRUISE LINE HAS ITS OWN FLAVOR and Covid has turned everything upside down and all around. In addition to the cruise room/charge card that every cruise line uses, this time we have a bracelet that functions as a Covid-tracker in case someone on ... Read more >

Oops! My Bad

Mon, 8 Nov 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [382]

I THINK I MADE A BIG MISTAKE. The Virtuosa hasn’t even left port and there’s talk of mutiny. Some of the passengers boarded in Barcelona so they’ve had more time to pile up grievances. They skipped Marseilles entirely and couldn’... Read more >

The Gardens of Villa d'Este in Tivoli

Sun, 7 Nov 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [636]

TIVOLI GARDENS IS AN AMUSEMENT PARK in Copenhagen. The garden at Villa d’ Este in Tivoli, Italy is, in a word, AMAZING! Despite the gloomy weather forecast—they haven’t been right all week—and fighting with the ticket machine, ... Read more >

Ostia Antica

Sat, 6 Nov 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [400]

IT SEEMED LIKE THE ROMAN GODS had conspired to keep us from visiting Ostia Antica. It was closed in 2012 due to snowy weather the first time we tried. Yesterday we again took the metro and a train to the site only to learn tickets were available only ... Read more >

Roamin' Around Rome

Fri, 5 Nov 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [356]

LEGEND SAYS IF YOU THROW A COIN in the Trevi Fountain—right hand over left shoulder for best reults—you will return to Rome. We certainly got our euro’s worth—this is our fourth visit!         ... Read more >

Photos: Rome Again

Fri, 5 Nov 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery

Pompeii—It's A Date!

Tue, 2 Nov 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [453]

FROM OUR 2012 JOURNAL ENTRY after our first visit to Pompeii— If you lived in Pompeii, August 24 in the year 79 AD would have been a good day to be out of town. Around noon, Mt. Vesuvius began pouring tons of ash into the sky.  It had been ... Read more >