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A Trip to Treviso

02/10/2019 Written by Helen

Amanda and Steve, friends who come and visit us from Manchester, usually fly into Treviso, north of Venice, spend a couple of days there and then hop on the train to Trieste where we pick them up. They keep telling us that we must visit Treviso, because we’d love it. Additionally, my sister and family […]

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The Backstreets of Bergamo

15/03/2019 Written by Helen
Festival time : Piazza Vecchia, Citta Alta, Bergamo

Bergamo, located west of Milan, in the region of Lombardy, is beautiful. Often overlooked for the more glitzy (and possibly more brash) Milan, it has everything. There is the lower, more modern town (Citta Bassa) – although, as well as your retail therapy kicks, you can still soak up the history of the town. Wide […]

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Officine Cavour, Padova

18/02/2019 Written by Helen
Officine Cavour, Padova

Our second accommodation on our weekend stopover in Padova was an apartment, slap bang in the historical centre, called Officine Cavour. Directions to the car park were great – but we struggled a little bit initially to find the actual apartment. It’s located in a small square called Piazza Camillo – perhaps the easiest way […]

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Best Western Plus Net Tower, Padova

13/02/2019 Written by Helen

We often drive around the outskirts of Padova (Padua) when we travel back to Istria from Italy. We’ve always found it – even with Google Maps – quite a perplexing city to get out of. It’s not a big city, but the outskirts are a bit on the confusing side, so we generally use the […]

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The Venice Carnival

07/02/2019 Written by Helen
Venice Carnival

Apart from Easter in Seville – Santa Semana – we’ve not witnessed a spectacle quite as amazing as the Venice Carnival. Two years ago, we arrived in Venice on a cold, misty February morning, a stop-over on our way to take over our Istrian stone farmhouse. Because we were so consumed with the move to […]

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Flooded Venice

01/11/2018 Written by Helen
Flooded Venice

The first time I visited Venice was on a school trip, back in 1977. We’d been on a ski trip and spent a day on the way back to the airport, in the city. It was January. It was cold. And, the city was flooded. St Mark’s Square was like a pool – I remember […]

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Salò, Lombardy

31/07/2018 Written by Helen
Salò, Lombardy

When we visited Brescia, not too long ago, we decided to visit the town of Salò, located on the western banks of Lake Garda. I’d seen Salò on Francesco da Mosto’s “Italy : Top to Toe” and was fascinated by it. As we were so close, it seemed a wasted opportunity not to visit the […]

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Istria Week Round Up

23/07/2018 Written by Helen
Istria Week Round Up

So, last weekend saw us returning to Rovinj to watch the World Cup Final. We’ve stayed in Rovinj a few times since we arrived in Istria and although The Adriatic Hotel is our favourite place to stay, we just can’t justify the prices in high season. But, it gives us an opportunity to explore and […]

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Cesena, Italy

25/06/2018 Written by Helen
Cesena, Italy

When we saw that Eels were playing in Italy, in a town we’d never heard of, called Cesena, we decided to go for it and booked tickets, researching the town afterwards. Cesena is in the province of Emilia-Romagna, about 30 kms inland from Rimini, so a fair distance from us in Istria, but we decided […]

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Travels with our Guests

18/05/2018 Written by Helen
Travels with our Guests

We’ve just said goodbye to our second set of friends who’ve been staying with us for a few days. Amanda and Steve had a few days in Italy first – they flew to Venice Marco Polo from Manchester and then spent a couple of days 30km north of Venice, in Treviso and then took the […]

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Trieste, Italy

03/04/2018 Written by Helen
Trieste, Italy

We’re so, so lucky that we are now so close to Italy. When the candle supplies are running low, we generally do a trip to IKEA in Villesse, in the province of Gorizia in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It’s a little bit further north than Trieste but it always seems as if we are […]

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Onwards from Nice…

18/01/2018 Written by Helen
Onwards from Nice…

We had originally planned to end our winter road trip in Ravenna, in Italy, spending four days at Alighieri Theatre Charming Suite but we felt that we had been on the road long enough, and so, in very nice communcations with Silvia, the owner, decided to postpone until later in the year. However, we also […]

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