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charming coasts of this region by Vespa motorcycle. 2007-06-04 16:40:00 Those who love Sardinia, next week-end, have a chance to explore the charming coasts of this region
by Vespa motorcycle.The Cagliari Vespa Club organises a two-day tour. It’s the annual “Cagliari in Vespa” tour, which will be held on June 2th and 3th.
Italy Travel Destinations Far from the Madding Crowd 2007-06-02 19:49:00 Yes, each year it seems the major attractions of Europe get ever more crowded. And each year the crowding nudges further into what we used to know as the "shoulder season." Mostly it's because everyone crowds into the few big sites their friends tell them they have to see.
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Italy Travel Tips: Tickets, Receipts and the Law in Italy 2007-05-31 17:36:00 In fact, there's lots of things you might not know about ticket and receipts in Italy
. We've put together a little gallery of typical tickets and receipts you'll come across on your vacation, and tell you how to read them, how to deal with them, and when to throw them away.
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Let's drink to Venice 2007-05-29 18:26:00 I'M LOST. But I'm in Venice
and that's all that matters. After much map-turning and bridge-crossing, wandering about arguably Italy's most romantic city, I admit defeat. The warm glow of a nearby wine bar beckons.
Italy in Top five bargain destinations for summer 2007 2007-05-29 04:16:00 With summer just around the corner, and industry analysts predicting a record-breaking travel season, high travel prices might seem inescapable. But with our picks for this season's top bargain destinations, even travelers on tight budgets can find ways to make the most of a summer vacation.
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Italy Travel Planning: Don't Forget the Little Places on Your Vacation 2007-05-26 20:04:00 Yes, Rome, Florence and Venice are the stars in Italy
's vacation line-up, but the villages between can make your holiday sizzle. In Tuscany alone you'll find Cortona, the towers of San Gimignano, the etruscan Volterra, "hidden Tuscany's" Garfagnana (pictured on the left), little Pienza and the wine towns of Montalcino and Montepulciano. In fact, wine villages often attract the best cooks and artisans, so a drive around the Chianti Classico can be memorable as well. (See these places on a Map of Tuscany.)
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Strikes disrupt air travel in Italy 2007-05-22 18:23:00 Rome - Simultaneous work stoppages by Alitalia flight attendants and air traffic controllers caused severe disruption to air travel
in Italy
on Tuesday, with the country's flagship carrier alone being forced to cancel nearly 400 flights.
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Tour Italy with new book by David Hume 2007-05-20 17:03:00 As David
D. Hume sees it, most Americans miss the real Italy
, even if they travel there. They make the standard tourist stops in Rome, Florence and maybe Venice but they see little of the rest of the country, where the scenery is gorgeous, the food is usually superb, and the people are charming and hospitable.More...
Ride Tuscany with Olivia Gollan 2007-06-07 18:12:00 Olivia Gollan is a hugely successful bike racer, blessed with social skills perfect for engaging group environments, she’s lived in Italy for the past 5 years, she races for the Italian team Menikini Gysko, and through it all still takes in one day at a time.
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, Olivia
Wine Tour Tips: Chianti Area 2007-06-06 18:05:00 If you plan to visit wineries in the Chianti area and eventually have wine tastings by spending a day or two, I suggest you consider a wine tour which will maximize your visit.
Italy Travel - Watch Tower: Lost in Rome 2007-06-09 17:45:00 The main problem was language. None could speak or understand English. Even the police people who are the watchdogs for safety and security for all including foreigners would have a standard reply to any query "No English"- Debi Mukherjee
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world's longest land tunnel, speeding Alpine travel 2007-06-15 16:39:00 The tunnel
, which took eight years to build and cost 4.3 billion Swiss francs (C$3.7 billion), will trim the time trains need to cross between Germany and Italy from 3 1/2 hours to just under two.
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Sound alarm about tourists flooding Venice 2007-06-17 18:03:00 A message to visitors to Venice
: No bare torsos in St. Mark's Square, please. No lounging on the monuments. And no feet dangling in the canals. Henry James observed more than a century ago: "Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors."
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Expedia Travel plans to launch service in Italy 2007-06-21 17:11:00 Expedia Corporate Travel
announced today plans
to launch service in Italy
in August through a partnership with Milan-based travel management company L'Orchidea Viaggi. The partnership will make Italy ECT's fifth European point of sale, in addition to Belgium, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Web Site Attack Hits Italy Tourism Sites 2007-06-19 18:31:00 Trend Micro said it detected more than 4,500 travel sites in Italy
that have been infected as part of a scheme through which data on computers that visit those sites is being stolen and sent to a server located in Chicago, said David Perry, a spokesman for the Japan-based company.
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Italy for the Gourmet Traveler 2007-06-25 19:22:00 To travel and eat in Italy
to experience this food in all its flavors and variety is to return to those roots. And Fred Plotkin's revised, recently released and exhaustive "Italy for the Gourmet Traveler
" is the perfect guide.
Older Americans are not packing it in 2007-06-23 17:40:00 “Italy is really hot for this,” she said. “You can bike through the country or rent a villa in Tuscany for a week and make a lot of side trips. Going someplace where you only have to unpack once is another big thing, which is why river cruises are so popular. You can see several cities and only have to unpack once.”
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Italy gives up historic buildings for use as deluxe hotels 2007-07-02 08:04:00 The first to be offered is the Villa Tolomei, a crumbling Renaissance jewel at Marignolle in the Tuscan hills just outside Florence, which is to become an "elegant super deluxe hotel". The terms of the lease - under a scheme that emulates the Spanish system of Paradors - are to be published in the next two weeks.
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, historic
When in Rome: travel light 2007-06-29 21:29:00 know many of you might be traveling to other countries this summer, which is a great thing in itself. Some of you might face the situation I am about to describe so pay good attention. Before leaving for England for the summer, I was faced with a packing dilemma. With more stringent airline baggage restrictions, I had to figure out what was really important to me while keeping it under 50 pounds,
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Europe's greatest train journeys 2007-07-04 18:11:00 Railways created the world we know. Before railways, there were no seaside resorts, no suburbs, no standard time. Now Europe
's railways are trying to change the way we travel in a world that has been reshaped – and threatens to be asphyxiated – by car and air travel.
Austria, Italy agree on funding for railway tunnel through Alps 2007-07-10 16:59:00 The agreement was included in a memorandum of understanding signed by the Austria
n transportation minister, Werner Faymann, and his Italian counterpart, Antonio Di Pietro. The memorandum also foresees 2022 as a completion date. The Brenner Base Tunnel will have a length of about 56 kilometers (35 miles) — or 62 kilometers (39 miles) including a detour around the Austrian city of Innsbruck — and will link the north of the continent to its Mediterranean south.
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ItalyTravelNotes.com invites you to share your travel experiences 2007-07-08 18:16:00 ItalyTravelNotes.com is created by travellers who describe Italy from their personal point of view and share their inspiration of the country. The latest Italy Travel blog offers a meeting place between those who have travelled in Italy and those planning to visit the country - where they can meet over a cup of cyber cappuccino and share in their own experiences
and advices.
Italy: Bountiful Bordighera 2007-07-07 15:01:00 THINK of holidays in Italy
these days, and many people's thoughts turn to the Italian lakes. Last year, on my first trip to Italy with my wife, we headed straight to Lake Garda without a second thought and there is no doubt it was a beautiful place to stay.
Italy's Alitalia warned of possible travel disruptions due to a daylong strike 2007-07-13 18:01:00 Italy's Alitalia warned of possible travel disruptions due to a daylong strike
by its flight attendants set for Wednesday, the latest in a series of protests buffeting the struggling airline. Alitalia said in a statement Friday it would try to warn passengers of the flights that will be affected by the 24-hour walkout and called on the public to check the company's Web site. Alitalia did not say how many flights were expected to be canceled.
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Florence in Italy was named the best city for the second straight year 2007-07-12 16:26:00 NEW YORK: An Indian hotel has won the award for the world’s best hotel for the first time in a survey by an international travel magazine while Florence in Italy
was named
the best city for the second straight year. Travel+Leisure magazine on Tuesday released its 12th annual list of the world’s best awards after a poll of almost 19,000 conducted by researcher Harris Interactive. The Oberoi Udaivilas in Udaipur, a grand setting combined with palatial architecture in the heart of Rajasthan was voted the top hotel worldwide.
TRAVELING THROUGH ITALY 2007-07-15 17:16:00 Cars and trucks zipped by, leaving us in their dust. Tickets for a bus ride across Venice? No one ever asked for proof that we’d paid. Infectious casualness came to mind last week when my children traded their car keys for long-distance travel on mass transportation. My daughter sped, so to speak, to and from Washington, D.C., by Amtrak. My son left the driving to Greyhound on his way back to a summer internship in Philadelphia.
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