A small sample of the Italian Riviera

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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] I must admit we have been much more active on this leg of our journey than the others. With four day trips in less than a week we were … Read More

Three for three

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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Sometimes rules have to be broken and this includes the one for our number of day-trips per week. We settled into La Spezia without  problems. We’re staying in a blue-collar neighborhood in a pleasant, … Read More

Our day-trip to the Cinque Terre

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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] We have wanted to visit the Cinque Terre for some time now; these five communities perched on the mountain side on the Mediterranean Sea called to us with their … Read More

Hiking the Cinque Terre trails

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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] The main reason we decided to go to La Spezia was to rectify something we were unable to do when we were in Italy in 2013. I’m referring, of … Read More

Florence flashback

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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] The benefit with traveling over the course of months instead of a week or two is that after a while you stop feeling bad about not setting ambitious sight-seeing goals. On our last day … Read More