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Italian Food Markets: Rules, Vocabulary, & Market Days in Italy
If you’re not a foodie when you get off the plane in Italy, you just might be one by the time you leave. This country can do that to you. But you don’t have to be some kind of expert to thoroughly enjoy all kinds of culinary exploration during
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Venice Connected: Venice Goes Online
For travelers like me who are constantly online, researching a trip in Italy can be a bit frustrating. Yes, there are plenty of cities, hotels, and attractions in Italy which have good websites – but infinitely more lag behind with either distinctly
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Italian Women: More Hot Italian Soccer Wives & Girlfriends
After I posted my first list of hot Italian soccer players, the boys in my office requested equal time for the women who date soccer players. I obliged with a post about hot Italian WAGs. (I am nothing if not obliging.)
So when the second list of hot Itali
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“In Etna’s Shadow” by Karen Landes – Italy Book Review
Sometime last year I was contacted by an expat living outside Naples who was interested in contributing some posts to WhyGo Italy. After corresponding with her for a bit, and reading some of her writing on her own blog, I was sold – and I’ve be
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Milan in the Snow: January 2009
Over the Christmas holidays I kept reading updates from my Italian friends about the amount of snow they were getting, even in places that didn’t often see much of the white stuff. Well, one of my Italian teachers visited her family near Milan over the hol
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Budget Hotels Near the Venice Train Station: 1-star & 2-star
Because so many of the gorgeous old buildings in Venice are former palazzi that have been turned into luxury hotels, finding inexpensive accommodation can be tricky in this much-visited city. There’s only one true hostel in Venice, and it’s on
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Introducing BootsnAll Today: Daily Travel Inspiration & Information
I like to think that you, my faithful readers, are quite similar to me in many ways – not least because you love Italy. For instance, I enjoy reading about travel-related stuff (Italy-related or not), and love getting inspired to pack my bags and get
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Hotels in Venice: How to Find Where to Stay
With the vast majority of the bodies crowding St. Mark’s Square every day being tourists, it’s probably not surprising that there are more hotels in Venice than you can imagine – with more popping up every day.
In order to help
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Unique Hotels in Venice
Venice has been described as a theme park for adults. It’s a fantasy world – a place you can’t believe is real until you’re there, and even then you’re still not sure. So if you’re looking for a hotel in Venice, you may
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Italy in March
Italy, like almost every place on earth, has shoulder seasons between its high and low seasons. Although Italy’s shoulder seasons are shorter than they are in some other places, March is still very much part of Italy’s spring shoulder season &#
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Fried Zucchini Flowers Recipe
This Italian recipe comes from my blogging friend Robin of My Melange, whose photos of this delicious recipe are almost making me drool on my keyboard. No joke.
I had never even heard of frying a zucchini blossom, until I arrived in Italy that is. In fact
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A Visit to the Galleria Ferrari: The Ultimate Ferrari Museum
Which is the most quintessentially Italian car – Ferrari or Lamborghini?
While there are undoubtedly people who are more qualified to answer that question than I am, for my money (which will never amount to enough to buy either one, by the way, even
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Italy Travel Twitterers I Like (and You Probably Will, Too)
In the past year or so, I’ve become an avid fan of Twitter – and while I do use it quite a bit for work, I also find it really helpful for keeping with friends I’ve made in Italy (thankfully, most of them are geeky enough to be active Twitterer
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Best Party Hostels in Rome (or Places Where You Might Not Sleep Much)
Travel is about more than sight-seeing. It’s also about making connections, whether that’s with the locals or with other travelers. Even in a city like Rome, where there’s no shortage of attractions and monuments to take up every spare mo
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Pasta alla Carbonara Recipe
Spaghetti carbornara might be one of my favorite pasta dishes ever – anything combining cheese and pork gets my vote – but I’ve never actually made it. So I’m thrilled that Robin of My Melange has contributed her easy pasta carbonara reci
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Italy in April
There have been songs written about “April in Paris,” but it’s easy to argue that April in Italy is just as worthy of a musical tribute. This is a month that’s still firmly in Italy’s spring shoulder season, but it often also
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Hotels Near the Venice Train Station: 3-stars & 4-stars
Venice isn’t a big city, and walking from one end to the other isn’t that long of a trip (unless you take lots of weird side-streets and wrong turns, which is highly recommended) – but the center of tourist activity in Venice is actually
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WhyGo Italian Recipe Box: Italian Classics You Can Make at Home
One of the things that can easily capture the heart of any traveler in Italy is the cuisine. Italian food is world-famous for being wonderful and also wonderfully simple to make. But sometimes re-creating the Italian classics you’ve eaten while on va
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Vittorio Emanuele II Monument & Rome from the Sky Elevator
The Vittorio Emanuele II Monument in Rome is known by few nicknames, and most of them aren’t flattering. Alternately known locally as “The Vittoriano” (the only non-derisive nickname I know of), “The Typewriter,” “The Fa
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Venice Gondolas: Pretty in Pictures
I’ve said before that I have an almost inexplicable infatuation with Venice, and yet I’ve never taken a gondola ride. In fact, I’m not terribly interested in taking one. But I have to admit that they’re incredibly beautiful and quite pict
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