Destination: Italy

Yes. It. Can.

Mon, 5 May 2014 | By kateryna | Views [195] | Scholarship Entry

Nowhere are you haunted by death more than in Venice. Nowhere is your aesthetics challenged more than in Venice. Indeed, I have always maintained that only classical places can fully reveal true essence of contemporary art. But whereas even the most traditional ... Read more >

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New Year's in Naples

Mon, 5 May 2014 | By paigeschaefer | Views [175] | Scholarship Entry

“Ready?” Tyler asked, pausing at the subway exit. A thunderous blast rippled through Naples’ crooked streets, then—pop! pop! pop!—and the city fell quiet again. My stomach lurched. I wanted to retreat back down into the muggy warmth of the subway station, ... Read more >

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A City of Many Faces

Mon, 5 May 2014 | By letrishamouton | Views [242] | Scholarship Entry

The first time I set foot in Venice I was in awe. The sea spray mixed the smell of wine and, of course, pizza was intoxicating. In every direction Venetian Gothic architecture gave an ominous greeting as the plague doctor masks adorned by the famous gondoliers ... Read more >

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Positano #6

Mon, 5 May 2014 | By kwilson | Views [940]

Hi Again From The Amalfi Coast -       When we last met it was last Wednesday and we had just passed Sophia Loren’s vacation home and about to enter the city of Amalfi, the largest city on the Amalfi Coast.   ... Read more >

Positano #5

Mon, 5 May 2014 | By kwilson | Views [267]

Hello From The Amalfi Coast -       It is late   Thursday   evening and we’re back from one of the great dinners of all time.  The couple from Boston, that we met in Rome, had just been to Positano and ... Read more >

Bagan on a hot air ballon!

Mon, 5 May 2014 | By fra_adventures | Views [221] | Scholarship Entry

5.30 Bagan Myanmar I've slept few hours in the last days, but I wake up happy when the alarm sounds...although is very early another great adventure is waiting for me... I prepare my bag, check the camera and dress quickly..at 6 a pick up take me, I meet ... Read more >

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Life is Like a Gym

Sun, 4 May 2014 | By sarahsilverstein | Views [228] | Scholarship Entry

I'll never forget the advice I was given while on a 4-week exchange program in Florence, Italy. I was living in a beautiful university-owned flat overlooking the Duomo; we were on the third floor, and Ristorante Buca San Giovanni was on the first. One ... Read more >

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My best summer

Sun, 4 May 2014 | By darakchi | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry

This summer year was my best travel experience ever. And now my story begins... I had an opportunity to visit such a beautiful place, the well known tourism country in Europe with it`s charming view and fantastic atmosphere. Italy is a place where avery ... Read more >

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I had returned in search of answers

Sun, 4 May 2014 | By milano98 | Views [163] | Scholarship Entry

I watched him walk away down that sagging street with the brilliant sun. His person pulled upon the sky, tied by string to the dying sun, dragging its rays behind his back and casting a shadow above my shoulders. He reached the corner at the instant of ... Read more >

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Getting Lost and Found

Sun, 4 May 2014 | By hopefulwanderer | Views [181] | Scholarship Entry

While studying in Austria I decided to go on a trip to Italy with my friend Ryan. It was just supposed to be a long weekend trip to Venice, but it turned into an adventure that I will never forget. We arrived in Venice in the early morning and wandered ... Read more >

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Italian atmoshpere

Sun, 4 May 2014 | By nubard | Views [152] | Scholarship Entry

My first dream was to travel to Italy, to see the most beautiful places in the world, like Coliseum, Pisa Tower, Venice City Mount Vesuvius and others. I do not know why I love so much that country, may be because in the past life I was an Italian. I ... Read more >

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It isn't about what you take away, but what you...

Sat, 3 May 2014 | By cdyckhoff | Views [177] | Scholarship Entry

I'll never forget the day that I received the email to say I had been awarded a place on the Leonardo da Vinci programme, and that I was going to live for three months in Italy… Suddenly I was exchanging my hellos for ciaos and sipping espresso as opposed ... Read more >

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The day I left Italy

Sat, 3 May 2014 | By sophielovestotravel | Views [203] | Scholarship Entry

I’ll never forget the day that I left Italy. I was lying on a sun chair on the terrace of our apartment in Rome, I had my headphones in and as I looked up at the sky I heard in my ears, “I’m trying to find my direction home”. I realised then that I was ... Read more >

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passion

Sat, 3 May 2014 | By alhayat | Views [209] | Scholarship Entry

The first time for me to visit such a wonderful country ,Italy I will write about the country culture ,customs ,people ,arts , language ,life ,business ,economic ,.......

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The first time I arrived to this paradise...

Sat, 3 May 2014 | By oneland | Views [154] | Scholarship Entry

As all the people dream in my country I arrived to the paradise such they called it there,however the way is different,it's a legal way ,Im there for the first time in my life Im in Italy where I found a lot of people of my nation who risk their lifes ... Read more >

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