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A Foodie Meetup (Tweetup?) in Rome
It’s hard to be an Italophile and not also be a foodie. This country is one of the food destinations, so it’s not surprising that the words “Made in Italy” on a label can help sell a food product. (It helps with shoes and purses, to
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Paolo Maldini’s Last Game at San Siro in Milan
Along with the foodie meetup I attended in Rome, the other event which helped me decide I had to visit Italy at this time was a soccer game. You may recall that I saw two Italian football matches when I was here in 2008, watching my beloved AC Milan team a
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Italian Musicians Unite for Abruzzo Earthquake Relief
As I was sitting in the apartment today working and listening to my favorite Italian radio station – Radio Italia, all Italian music all the time – I heard a song I hadn’t heard before. I hadn’t been paying attention to the announce
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A Week in Rome & Naples
I’m about to hit the road for a little mini-trip within Italy. I leave for Rome this evening (hopefully after the Champion’s League and G8 madness is all gone) and will stay there for 3.5 days, after which I’ll spend 3.5 days in Naples be
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Back in Milan & Back to Work
I’m finally back in Milan after a week traveling in Rome and Naples, where it turned out my internet connections were less-than-predictable… So I apologize for the lack of posts over the last week. I have lots to share – including a gajil
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Trip of the Italian Boyfriends
You may remember my gushing over being able to attend the final home game of Paolo Maldini, the legendary longtime captain of my beloved A.C. Milan. It was, if I’m completely honest (which I always am – ahem), one of the main reasons behind me
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2 Reasons I Liked Naples Instantly
Rome, as I’ve said before, didn’t immediately set up shop in my heart the way some places in Italy have. The Eternal City has now (finally) carved out a little space of its own, largely due to the people I’ve met who love it so much and t
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How I Fell in Love with Naples
Brace yourself, I’m about to get all emotional about a city in Italy.
You’ve heard me positively gush about Venice, a city I can’t ever seem describe my deep and abiding affection for, and you may have wondered if there’s a city in
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The Bank Machine in Milan Ate My Debit Card
This was written on the train from Milan to Rome on May 30, 2009.
Just to prove that travel disasters (or things that seem like disasters) can happen to anyone, no matter how experienced or inexperienced you are, let me tell you about how my trip to Rome s
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Things to Do in Naples
While there are guidebooks that will tell you to spend the night elsewhere in Campania and take one day-trip into Naples to check out the city’s famous museum, I’ll tell anyone who asks me that Naples deserves a few days of any trip that includ
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Taxi Drivers in Italy Say the Darnedest Things
I’m beginning to think I could write a book – and not a short one, either – solely about taxi drivers in Italy. And contrary to what you might be thinking, I’m pretty sure I could do it without spending much time on the whole “
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Weird & Wonderful Naples
Okay, so you’ve checked out the list of what to do in Naples, and you’re thinking that even though you’ll probably hit most of the big items on that list you’d also like to throw in some oddball stuff as well. You know, the stuff th
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All the People I Met in Italy this Month
Whether I intend it to or not, most of my trips seem to end up having a theme. And while I joked recently that this was the Italian boyfriends trip, the truth is that it’s much more the internet friends trip. More specifically, it’s the trip wh
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Predictions: How I’ll Feel About Leaving Italy
If everything has gone according to plan and schedule, I’m en route back to Portland at the moment. And if I have any ability to predict the future from my standpoint writing this a couple days in advance, I can also say that I am in all likelihood q
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Dreams of Having Europe at My Door
As I’m writing this, I’m taking a break from cleaning the Milan apartment I’ve been staying in for the past month and packing up my bags to head back to Oregon. As you’re reading this, I’m probably comatose from jetlag back ho
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Kayaking Venice: Not Such a Crazy Idea
Imagine walking out of a small piazza in Venice and facing a quiet canal. On said canal, you see things you’d expect to see on a Venetian canal – motorboats moored to buildings near doorways that are slowly disintegrating where they meet the wa
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The Accidental Italy Travel Consultant
In the just-over-three years I’ve been working at BootsnAll, I’ve had three different titles and two sets of business cards, neither of which I’ve run out of. The current ones say I’m a “travel writer,” which covers just
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How to Get from Naples to Sorrento (and Vice Versa)
How to Get from Naples to Sorrento (and Vice Versa)
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Metro del Mare – There are metro systems on land, why not one on the water? Sadly, this sea-going “subway” isn’t made up of submarines, or it would officially be the coolest metro system on earth. Instead,
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Not finding quiet Venice? Don’t blame Venice.
On my last Friday on my most recent stay in Italy, I decided to take a day-trip to Venice from Milan. It’s not a short day-trip, but it’s do-able. With the fast train, it’s a 2.5-hour trip one-way – and if I’d been willing to
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What to Wear in Italy
One of the questions I often get when people are asking me about their upcoming Italy trips is, “What should I wear in Italy?” Even if those people have no problems packing for a trip just about anywhere else, for some reason having plane tickets wit
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