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Booking flights: putting travel experience to use, for better or for worse
When planning and booking my adventures, I balance my efforts between booking it myself and using an adventure travel professional. A straight shot to New York or Paris? I can handle that myself online...
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Taking the wrong train in Italy
I did very little planning for my trip to Italy. I booked accommodations, scheduled some food tours, made a few train arrangements to get some good deals on high speed trains. Then I went and got on...
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Italy travel journal: An out-of-context encounter in Rome
I have been home for a couple of weeks, re-adjusting to normal (non-travelling) life and sorting through the 4,000 pictures I took in Italy. Lots of favourites are emerging and I’m trying to find some...
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Italy travel journal: Eating my way to liking Venice
Question: How do you find more authentic adventures in the most-visited places in the world? I didn’t want to go to Venice. I had a few reasons: too far away from the other places in Italy I wanted to...
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Italy travel journal: Visiting Tuscany during wine harvest
I love travelling in the autumn for lots of reasons. In the Northern Hempishere, it’s harvest season, and that includes my dear friend, wine. While I was visiting Italy’s Tuscany region, I managed to...
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Italy travel journal: Hiking through Cinque Terre’s grape harvest
If you enjoyed last week’s visit to the wine harvest in Tuscany, my wine adventures in Italy continue with my visit to the Cinque Terre. This part of the trip involves even more grapes and wine, with...
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Italy travel journal: Vernazza – picking a favourite Cinque Terre village
I spent a glorious five days on Italy’s Mediterranean Coast among the mind-meltingly beautiful villages of the Cinque Terre. The “Five Lands” – Riommagiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso...
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2013 Year in Review: Oh, the places I went!
‘Tis the season for year-end lists! In the “business*” of blogging, year-end lists are a great way to contemplate the year that’s passed, while it’s still too cold** to think about next year’s travel...
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Venice’s floating fruit and vegetable market
Touring local markets is a highlight of any visit to a new city, and finding the markets frequented by locals is a special delight. Venice has a tremendous local market, the Rialto, with its landmark...
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