Two summers ago, between a couple of days spent in our dear Padova, and a week on our dear Marettimo, we squeezed in a day trip to Bologna, a little more than an hour’s drive from Padova.
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Finally, Turin
There have been requests, mostly (exclusively) from my friends, to write about our visit to Turin. Following some inexplicable inner schedule of mine, Turin, despite setting itself firmly as of my favorite Italian towns, kept being postponed.
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Two days in Lucca
Sunday morning in Lucca. We are taking a morning passeggiata, a walk with no particular goal except looking for everyday life in a foreign place, as we always do. Small Italian towns and villages repeatedly surprise me with their liveliness- it was a rainy morning, but still, the locals were there, active.
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Two days in Florence
Florence managed to enchant us despite the tourist hordes we dreaded, and for a city almost synonymous with the Renaissance and the powerful families from the period, looking back to our visit I see a modern city, with cool market, hipster bars serving chai latte (and it’s Italy I’m talking about!) and quirky shops.
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Rome at the height of summer
Last summer we ended up in Rome, and I say ended up because if it wasn’t for a certain concert we attended, I surely wouldn’t have chosen July for visiting Rome.
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