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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The Move #4
So, this move isn’t your normal kind of every-day-house-move. You see, we’re selling up lock, stock and barrel and relocating abroad. To Croatia. A country we only visited for the first time in June! We still pinch ourselves, but there is definitely method in what seems madness… Moving to northern Italy has been a plan […]
San Pellegrino
Nothing excites us more on our travels than finding unique and unusual places to stay, and Castello della Botta, high up in the hills above San Pellegrino Terme, is very definitely both! We were staying in Bergamo but decided to check out the spa town in the Brembana Valley, just 40 minutes away and […]
Travels in Italy 2013
One of the great joys of traveling through Italy is discovering firsthand that it is, indeed, a dream destination. – Debra Lavinson We are pulled to Italy, time and time again. In September – October 2013, we did quite an extensive trip, planning as we went along. This blog will set out to record where […]