Destination: Italy

Verona Opera - Madame Butterfly

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 | By 4ofus | Views [699]

And so to Verona for a short stay and to attend the famous Verona Arena Opera Festival. This was a warm Italian evening of much glamour and ceremony, and probably too many Prosecco's (sparkling white).The lead soprano was no spring chicken (as I am told ... Read more >

Bella Lago Di Como

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 | By 4ofus | Views [481]

I imagined that my remaining time in Europe would be in the roughest accommodation so far, so I was very pleasantly surprised to find my family home B & B in Menaggio, Lake Como(at 40 Euro per night!) was extremely pleasant, and the breakfast loaded ... Read more >

Photos: Verona and Venice, Italy

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 | By bec-simon | Photo Gallery

Photos: Rome - Italy

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 | By todd-holly | Photo Gallery

Rome -Italy

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 | By todd-holly | Views [394]

Rome - June 16 - 18th Rome has many great monuments.  We visited the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Palatine Hill, Vatican City, Trevi Fountain, St, Peters Square the Pantheon and many other monument over  the three days we where there.  We are masters of the ... Read more >

Athens / Zakynthos Is.

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 | By todd-holly | Views [410]

Athens / Zakynthos Is.   June 10th - 15th We weren’t able to travel directly to Zakynthos Is. From Paros so we decided we would spend a day in Athens to see the Acropolis and the Pantheon.  We walked most of the down town core including to the local ... Read more >

Nutella Off

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 | By ladydowse | Views [769]

So I’m living on a farm up in the mountains with a cool hippie family who have a tendency to walk in on me when I’m changing. They have three cats, who incidentally like to sleep in/on my bed, one dog that is pretty docile so that’s ok, three ... Read more >

Photos: Sicily!

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 | By freedom-sparkles | Photo Gallery

Ancona

Fri, 28 May 2010 | By jessiecresp | Views [260]

After the longest day spent on train after train after train I reched Ancona. Hmm Ancona... what to say about a place where noone speaks English and the hostel closes half the day?? haha. It is a fine place to stop over but not coming back!! I have ... Read more >

Amo l'Italia

Fri, 28 May 2010 | By langkawi21 | Views [879] | Comments [4]

Buongiorno (pronounced Bon journo) from Italy, a country neither of us had visited before but always wanted to, we've had a great 3 weeks here. Arrived into Venice from Croatia and were pleasantly surprised to find Venice as beautiful, relaxing ... Read more >

Photos: Italy

Wed, 26 May 2010 | By tk-tempany | Photo Gallery

Photos: Venice

Fri, 14 May 2010 | By kashikoi | Photo Gallery

베네치에 에서 사르스북까지

Fri, 14 May 2010 | By kashikoi | Views [702]

베니체를 오늘 아침 떠남으로서 이탈리 반도를 떠난다 … 일단은 . ^^ 이곳에서 여행의 시작과 반을 보내면서 참 행복했다 . 특별히한건 없다 , 관광객처럼 보는 것 마다 신기해하고 사진찍고 , 기차 찾고 , 해매고 , 길 묻고 , 사람과 예기하며 지낸 ... Read more >

Venice: City on the water

Thu, 13 May 2010 | By kashikoi | Views [406]

I think arriving in Venice I was museumed out so that I decided not to go into any of the bigger galleries. Instead I decided to conserve my time and euro and walk around, get lost and ride the vaporretto for just a day to go see the islands around the ... Read more >

Photos: Florence Fava and Rainy Venice

Wed, 12 May 2010 | By kashikoi | Photo Gallery