Jun
03
Price Check is a series of posts from every destination we visit that could serve as a shopping list to stock the kitchen at the start of your stay, as well as a cost of living index in a way. We’re including some basic items to get you started plus a local specialty or two …
Jun
02
We’ve become the people we’ve always envied, sipping glasses of Prosecco at the windows of our Venetian palazzo as we survey the action on the Grand Canal down below. People crammed on the vaporettos that pull up at the wharf in front smile up at us, while tourists cruising by on their gondola rides neglect …
Jun
02
We’re in Venice! And our ‘home’ for two weeks is a 17th century palazzo on the Grand Canal. While we normally begin each series of posts on a new place with a review of our latest holiday rental, we couldn’t resist starting Venice with a time-lapse sequence of the spectacular view from our latest digs. …
Jun
02
We’ve always loved train travel – as much for the opportunities it gives us to sit back and simply reflect, as for the chance to take in scenery you don’t get to see from the seat of a car, bus or plane. We’re trying to travel by train as much as we can, in keeping …
Jun
01
Italians joke that in Italy tax evasion, not soccer (football), is the number one national sport – a quarter of the Italian economy apparently avoids paying taxes. So it wasn’t so surprising to find out that Puglia’s trulli, the traditional, white, conical houses that dot the Puglian countryside, were a product of this pervasive practice. …
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