Here's a bit of good news. The ever-popular Paris>Milan>Train is back on track again! Travel Dates: 31 March - 04 July, 2025 Attractive Prices: Starting from €29 in second class and €39 in first class.
Stations include Paris Gare de Lyon, Mâcon Loché TGV (selected services), Chambéry, Saint-Jean de Maurienne (selected services),…
Welcome to another episode of places you probably haven't heard of before. Today's gem: we feature Istria. It's the largest peninsula within the Adriatic Sea.
Located at the top of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Kvarner Gulf, the peninsula is shared by three countries: Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy 90%…
Talk about freedom. Stay in as many places as you like.
History that you can touch and feel. Wake up to it.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
“Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Italy offers one the most priceless of one’s possessions – One’s own soul”
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934-2002) – American Journalist and memoirist
For some of us, driving a car is either an annoying or a harrowing experience. And this mild terror could exist even if we're "pretty good" drivers. But there are so many factors that come into play when we step in behind the wheel. Your editor drives, but only when required. (…
Let's hope not! To those of you who have visited Pompei in the past, (as we have done several times ourselves) have you ever been rushed, or crushed by the crowds and, in the end, felt disappointed in the experience? Pompeii is one one of those places where you want to . .…
Every time that we visit the big Italian cities, we often walk away scratching our heads. As we understand it, the The Room of the Last Supper on Mount Zion, just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, but all of the paintings appear to be somewhere else, with Milan suspiciously appearing…
Where every day is an adventure waiting to be discovered.
There’s no getting around getting around. Do it in style.
Tenerife is 100% Life. Dive in.
. . . it’s only a few blocks, and I like to walk, anyway.
Ya can get there from here.
The European Union kicks it up a notch.
Step into the real NYC. The Bronx.
Vaporetto? You won’t forget-o
No need to blow your top. At least not for now.
Still standing. Standing still.