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Sun, 11 May 2014 | By gimmepanda | Views [179] | Scholarship Entry
I'll never forget the day that I arrived in Venice. I'd already traveled the UK and Ireland for a whole month and spent over a week in Paris... but none of it compared to the city I'd been waiting for. We walked from the train station to our hotel, and ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Sun, 11 May 2014 | By scribbles | Views [331] | Scholarship Entry
The plan was an island tour around Venice. Pick-up point was the other side of the city but figured, hey, I can take a water bus. Board the no. 2 smiling expectantly at what I assumed would be a peaceful, relaxing sail. Gliding gracefully along the Grand ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Sun, 11 May 2014 | By madocflynn | Views [399]
Raindrops are splattering on the canvas rolled out on the street. Making the chalk pastels swirl in the droplets. Kaleidoscopic vortexes appearing all over the work-in-progress replica of ‘the school of Athens’ by Raphaelo. At this point ... Read more >
Tags: first time, roadtrip
Sat, 10 May 2014 | By clasch | Views [176] | Scholarship Entry
In June 2005 my friend Eva and I needed a break and couldn‘t believe our luck as we succeeded in obtaining two super sale train tickets to Florence! We were enjoying the pleasant anticipation... ... until we figured out a week before, that we had completely ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Sat, 10 May 2014 | By theabyrd | Views [109] | Scholarship Entry
I’ll never forget the day I didn’t realize I had bought my train ticket from Venice to Milan for March instead of February until the old Italian man scanning my ticket shook his finger at me, saying, “No, no, no. Not valid.” At the next stop I got off ... Read more >
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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By nilofer | Views [142] | Scholarship Entry
There are those who spend years, searching for a glimpse of their visions and there are those who find their dreams and desires inches away. Last year on the eve of the Italian spring I was one of them . My school arranged a trip for Italy ,and being ... Read more >
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Fri, 9 May 2014 | By chiacchierare | Views [446]
An almost non existent breeze still managed to find its way all the way from the piazza into the café. I leaned back into the velvet-upholstered chair and observed the wall paintings as I waited for my order to arrive. Beautiful men and women ... Read more >
Tags: cafe florian, eating, goethe, san marco, venezia, venice
Fri, 9 May 2014 | By chiacchierare | Views [458]
The crowd was growing quiet as the darkness settled over the arena. A rustling noise announced that the candles that had been handed out at the entrance were being unwrapped. The few with lighters lit their candles and slowly the fire spread across benches ... Read more >
Tags: events, opera, roman arena, verona
Fri, 9 May 2014 | By alidismog | Views [287] | Scholarship Entry
Sto osservano le pareti graffiate di questo bagno mentre lei è su di me, aggrappata al mio collo con entrambe le mani. Mi sta mordicchiando il lobo destro con una strana foga e troppi denti. I suoi braccialetti si muovono e tintinnano nel vuoto poco arredato ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Fri, 9 May 2014 | By chiacchierare | Views [589]
Padova train station 20.34 Sunday evening
The darkness has started to descend and the people on the platform increasingly have to rely on the florescent lights above. The sky is turning an azurian blue but keeps exploding into a sea of white as ... Read more >
Tags: italy, padova, rain, station, train, travel
Fri, 9 May 2014 | By mym | Views [109] | Scholarship Entry
I'll never forget the day that I met myself, it was a long time ago, I saw a little strange shape full of hair, with an angry face. And I thought "Why is it so sad?"...Days passed, years passed and that shape was still sad. One day the shape found a pencil ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Fri, 9 May 2014 | By therestless | Views [189] | Scholarship Entry
I watched as a fresh rain drop came down all its way and created a ripple in the small pond of water annihilating itself for the love of a tide. I was in the tomb of human sanity, a place where once we used to shed our social masks and went back to violent ... Read more >
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Thu, 8 May 2014 | By chiacchierare | Views [399]
I have the feet of a traveller, a pilgrim. Covered as they are in blisters, sores and dirty. A permanent ‘X’ embellishing them even when they are bare, a mark of the time spent in my sandals on dusty roads. Each weary step takes me forwards, ... Read more >
Tags: hiking, italy, pilgrim, umbria, walking
Thu, 8 May 2014 | By jennybarr | Views [133] | Scholarship Entry
I am writing to you today to tell you why I deserve the scholarship to study abroad this summer in Italy. It happened four years ago on my thirtieth birthday, what I now happily refer to as my mini mid-life crisis. All because my own expectations didn't ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
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