Italy

Florence, Italy: It’s All About the Art

And other observations during a two-night trip to Florence Excuse me, but how did this post that I published on Medium.com a few years back not make it onto my blog?! Here it is, regardless. (In case you’re wondering how…

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A Walking Tour of Naples, Italy

I’m reblogging this post from The Gen X Travels, a fellow WordPress blogger, for two reasons: 1) it has some great “in the moment” photos that I think my travel readers will enjoy and 2) because I want to be…

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Dear Venice, Get Well Soon

Best wishes for a speedy recovery I took this picture of my daughter last June as she and I returned to Venice from a day trip to Bologna. In the distance, you can see Venice in the lagoon poised for…

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Time to spare in Bologna, Italy is a good thing

Missing a Renaissance masterpiece isn’t One Saturday last June my daughter and I wandered into the Church of Santa Maria della Vita in Bologna, Italy.  We were killing time as we waited to meet friends (my daughter’s Italian language tutor,…

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The Jewish Ghetto of Venice: A Walking Tour

Five facts and photos from our brief visit to this less traveled Venetian sight In June, my daughter and I took an afternoon in Venice to see the Jewish Ghetto located in the Cannaregio sestiere, in the north of the…

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Going to the hospital in Venice

H is for Ospedale I’m betting that the question, “Wonder where the hospital is around here?” passes through the minds of most visitors to Venice… at least those visitors who stay on the island and think about where they would…

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Dear Venice… We have to talk.

Finally, I’ve found a city I can trust myself with — Ravenna, Italy. I didn’t mean to fall in love. I wasn’t looking for someone new. I had never even heard of Ravenna until I went to Italy. But, Venice,…

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A dull ache for a sharp object

When Mom’s pocket knife gets confiscated When the security employee at the gate asked me to step aside, I remembered. My pocket knife. Oh no, my pocket knife, I thought, realizing I had left it earlier in the little cosmetic…

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Verona, Italy is the bomb dot com

And other observations my daughter made when she visited on a daytrip from Venice My daughter spent three months living in Venice in 2017 as an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, a small, yet world-renowned modern art museum located…

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