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Naples - Out of this world.
Whatever you have read about Naples, it doesn't prepare you for the reality. The taxi driver that I had booked turned up late, his car...
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vanessavecellio
Feb 8, 20215 min read
Modena to Firenze. Walking where artists trod.
Both with terrible flu, the partner on antibiotics and me trying not to be, we head to Modena to meet up with the daughter and her...
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Feb 2, 20213 min read
Umbria - Of fireflies and hippies.
Awoke to a thrush singing and breakfasted under an enormous, ancient plum tree with fruit almost ripened. The heat was already palpable...
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Jan 10, 20213 min read
Rome meetup.
My solo time is about to come to and end. I'm meeting the partner in Rome tomorrow. I take the bus to Venice and then meet a lovely lady...
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Dec 9, 20202 min read
Auronzo - Spring has sprung.
We hang out in the spring. There are wildflowers everywhere, fields of them swaying gently, the river like aquamarine flowing over the...
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Dec 2, 20205 min read
Modena. Marches and Negronis.
I meet the daughter in Bologna at a hotel where we’ve stayed before, right in the heart of the city. All Italianate rooms, a beautiful...
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Nov 9, 20203 min read
Auronzo - Falling in love.
This place has never done a great deal for me, I’m a child of the cities where I can walk and watch people, look at art and search for...
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Nov 6, 20202 min read
Mantova - Signs from above.
Mantova ,someone told me, is a city of mists; low lying, surrounded by lakes. I arrive to find it filled with Italian tourists, grey but...
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Nov 3, 20204 min read
Venezia - A dream unfulfilled.
So I booked an Air BnB for four nights in my spirit city so I could live as a honorary Venetian for a few days. My vision was to go to...
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vanessavecellio
Oct 27, 20203 min read
Bologna - A concert in the middle of nowhere.
I meet the daughter in #Bologna. The hotel I booked that suggested it was in the centre, isn't. It's like a Fawlty Towers scenario. The...
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Oct 22, 20203 min read
Ravenna. Of mosaics and a man who found his purpose.
I'm off to Ravenna, in my mind a fabled place that in the thirty years of travelling to Italy, I never went to. It's famous for it's...
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