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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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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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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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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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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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Zrenj to Chamonix

28/11/2017 Written by Helen
Zrenj to Chamonix

We were up with the larks this morning – no mean feat as our builder popped by late last night to discuss some new ideas (wine & beer were involved) – and packing the car as we’ve never packed before. We’re not instinctively organised travellers. We can arrive on a beach with not a flip […]

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Lake Bled, Slovenia

09/11/2017 Written by Helen
Lake Bled, Slovenia

Our house in Istria is in the most perfect location. When we bought it, we hadn’t quite realised just how perfect, but now that we are getting to know the area, we’re realising just what a gem we bought. Being located in northern Istria, our travel options have really widened out and we can now […]

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Centro Paolo VI

13/10/2017 Written by Helen
Centro Paolo VI

I suppose the name should have given it away – Paul VI – but we just didn’t cotton onto the nature of this hotel. We wanted somewhere to stay in the Centro Storico in Brescia and when we googled accommodation, this hotel just stood out. The architecture and interiors looked amazing – OK, the rooms […]

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Beautiful Bergamo…

11/10/2017 Written by Helen
Beautiful Bergamo…

We’ve made no secret of our love of Bergamo, a stunning walled medieval town (with a more modern lower town) in Lomabrdy, usually over shadowed by Milan. Which for us is good, because it means we can hopefully keep it as our little secret a bit longer. However, we don’t feel it’ll be a secret […]

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The Leonessa d’Italia

04/10/2017 Written by Helen
The Leonessa d’Italia

We visited Brescia a few years ago and to be honest, it didn’t leave much of a lasting impression. To be fair, we were only there to change trains and as our next destination was the stunning Verona, it had some big competition. We only really saw the area around the main train station and […]

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The Colosseum, Rome

16/04/2017 Written by Helen
The Colosseum, Rome

This place is definitely worthy of a blog, all of its own. If you are lucky enough to be able to visit Rome out of season – or at least not slap bang in the middle of the tourist season – your trip to The Colosseum will be much more enjoyable as you won’t competing […]

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