In spring, we visited Japan again. Even though Japan was never really a place I dreamed of visiting before our friends moved to Tokyo and invited us to stay, what we experienced there was so intoxicating that we wanted to deepen that experience, or at least re-live it.
Read MoreDreaming of Ireland
I have been absent for weeks from my blog. First, we had a beautiful autumn trip to Italy, Germany, and France, gifted with all the warm colors of autumn, misty mornings, sunny days and dear people. Then, when we came back, the renovation works in our home started- they have been keeping me away from my laptop as well as from my home actually.
Read MoreRome 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.
Read MoreTraveling Tuscany: Bagno Vignoni and Bagni San Filippo
Traveling Tuscany: Pienza
I don't know if I ever mentioned this, but one of my long-term wishes is to visit each region of Italy, slowly. Without frantic driving from town to town, running between monuments and museums. No. A couple of days in one place would do.
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