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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By jesstakesontheworld | Views [219] | Scholarship Entry
Accidentally missing the 9:38am connection for my trip from Florence to Nice, I retired to the fact I would have to catch the much later 11:58am train. At the station I hoped on the train & another passenger said the train wasn’t working & we had to ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By napoli | Views [185] | Scholarship Entry
There is probably no avid traveler who does not have a plan to visit famous Italian cities, and the inevitable "New City" whose beauty made Goethe write: "See Naples and die." However, there is another city with the same name, with streets crammed with ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By oneironautrix | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By melduffy | Views [145] | Scholarship Entry
“Move over so my short wife can see the track,” the cranky Italian husband demands. The locals are tired, but who could blame them. Siena spends all year preparing for this event. Of the 17 districts only 10 get to compete for the silk banner (Il Palio), ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By travellingbuscemi | Views [355] | Scholarship Entry
She limped her way down three flights of stairs. I followed her slowly, readying myself for any missteps. The old terracotta-coloured walls were cracked like dehydrated desert earth. The sun flickered through small iron-barred windows, barely lighting ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By japanese_thru_dinner | Views [162] | Scholarship Entry
June 28, 2012. Stuck in traffic on a bus ride towards the city, sweat rolls down and drenches my shirt as I sat cramped together with a group of strangers. The discomfort of wet hair invoked a feeling of regret of failing to shorten it prior to the ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By roseinroma | Views [131] | Scholarship Entry
Tears cover my cheeks and my vision blurs as my eyes dart from side to side and my weary legs carry me across another Roman road, foreign to me. Why do I do this to myself? Haven’t you heard that you can’t escape heartbreak? My inner monologue tears me ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By bethruth | Views [125] | Scholarship Entry
I’d forgotten about that bicycle in Florence. It’s easy to forget little things like that – a rickety bike leaning against the white plaster wall of a chapel, dwarfed beneath the shadow of Brunelleschi’s Dome. But I’ve remembered, now, and it’s one of ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By onherdoorstep | Views [129] | Scholarship Entry
The sun drops behind the mountains, leaving the ancient city in golden light. Rich smells of tomatoes and herbs spill from hidden restaurants, mixing with the smell of sweat and excitement that permeates and hangs like a suffocating fog in the warm evening ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By kesialexandra | Views [219] | Scholarship Entry
While studying abroad in London, I arranged a trip for fall break to Rome, Bergamo, Milan and Paris. Everything was going so well until it was time to go to France! I loved Rome so much, and really want to go back. Milan didn’t move me much but there ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By erikakathryn | Views [175] | Scholarship Entry
Lost on a quiet side street, caught between the beautiful Tuscan landscape and the enormous stone towers of San Gimignano, I found myself breathing in the summer air and the sunshine warming up my tired face. Maybe it’s the fact that I am too much of ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By wevegotthevision | Views [117] | Scholarship Entry
For those that don’t know, Mount Vesuvius is an active volcano located just outside of the Italian town of Naples. I was about 15 at the time and on a family holiday with my Mum and Brother. It was such a beautiful, hot, blisteringly hot summers day (Well ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By mickeyymouse | Views [230] | Scholarship Entry
As I stare at the beautiful, ancient structure outside my window, I wonder how I got here. What I had done in my life to deserve this gift. Because that's what it was. A gift. It was when I first began to learn languages that the concept of travel began ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By megancuzz | Views [118] | Scholarship Entry
The tears came pouring out as soon as my sister and our jovial host were out of sight. I’d practically run away from them, feeling this well up inside me. It was mid-October in Sicily; the beach was quiet and any visible structures looked abandoned. There ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By themaddingcrowd | Views [131] | Scholarship Entry
It was a day of firsts. I could not decide if my senses had taken a dive far deeper into the books than I ever had, or if I had finally lifted my eyes off the pages. I realized I should not have read Kerouac right before arriving here. Now, all I could ... Read more >
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