Posts from the ‘Europe’ Category
Tweet Somewhere In Time is a somewhat weekly photo from around the world. Enjoy! Welcome to the Wachau Valley in Austria. Beautiful isn’t it? This photo was taken on the top sun deck on the Sound Of Music river boat as we cruised down the Danube, as part of our tour with Gate 1. This [...]
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Tweet Story by Randy Kalp Photography by Bethany Salvon Consistently in the Top 5 most in demand tourist spots in the world, Italy gets more than 40 million visitors a year. Legacy cities, like Rome, Venice and Florence, get most of the action, leaving some of the best regions seemingly tourist free. One such place [...]
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Tweet It happened by accident. Instead we decided to visit St. Peter’s and when we arrived we were equally shocked at the length of the line. It was another two hour wait to get inside. When Randy and I had visited a couple years before there was no line to enter and we just walked [...]
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Tweet One day in the not so near future you will be able to bicycle from Florence to Rome on a path through the Val di Chiana. We got a taste of that 400 km journey on our recent trip to Tuscany with GAdventures. Believe it or not, without Leonardo Di Vinci’s help, this Tuscan [...]
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Tweet Mind-blowing mosaics, signature food (think: prosciutto, Parmigiano-Reggiano, balsamic vinegar, tortellini), medieval castles and whitewater rafting, there’s a lot of reasons to go to the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and we are going to indulge in each during the next week. We already got a sneak peek of Bologna last week before our local living [...]
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Tweet It’s crazy. We’re in Italy – just got here today! Wow. We were scheduled to be here next week but by a crazy turn of events we arrived one week early. We flew into Bologna and the minute we stepped on the tarmac I felt a wave of excitement and peacefulness role over me. [...]
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Tweet Summer is one of the best times to visit Barcelona. From picnics in the Ciutadella Park to excursions on Tibidabo Mountain, there is plenty to do when the sun is shining in the Catalan capital. However, a visit to Barcelona during summertime would most definitely not be complete without relaxing with a cool cocktail [...]
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