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Hi I thought that some of you might be interested in my Italy expat memoir, Living in Italy: the Real Deal. It is about me and my husbands hilarious and horrendous adventures while moving to Italy to start a bed and breakfast. It is on sale for 1$ for a few days. Check it out if you want...

Italy 2017, the odyssey We’re down to less than five weeks before we (us playful “otters”-- wife and I) leave for Roma. Now, if anyone will be in the same areas we will be on during our odyssey we’ll try for a GTG (get together). The past two months have been a blur with “where do we really...

Waiting for the first customer of the day.

This week’s Photo Hunt No. 14 (Week of June 4) – Funny A Photo Hunt 2017 category is available on the Media Gallery. It was very moving to see the memorials in everyone’s photos this past week. I think it is so important to remember and not forget. My thoughts go out to the victims and the...

Hi I'm Kitty, just joined this group., I'm a writer from Los Angeles and I'd like to connect with you Italy lovers to learn more about the places you've been and find out what you discovered beyond the usual tourist stuff. I'm launching a blog this month about cool things to do in Italy. I go...

This week’s Photo Hunt No. 8 (Week of April 23): Flower(s) There is a Photo Hunt 2017 category on the Media Gallery in case you want to put your photos in the media gallery first and then insert from there using the camera icon above the text box, into your post. I love the lines, angles...

Flower on Gondola in Venice, Italy (2005)

By Doru from Toronto, Canada, Summer 2002. Doru & Josette on a three week adventure in the Italian Lakes, Venice, Tuscany, and Milan. Preface and Departure Sometime in December 2001, with the spring 2002 trip to Spain all planned out and committed, I became antsy again. It was a funny kind of...

Background: My husband, mother-in-law (MIL), two daughters (9, 11), and myself are venturing to Italy for 14 days in June. It's my MIL and our girls first trip to Italy. I've been to Venice twice in recent years but have never visited the islands. Since we haven't been AND my MIL is an artisan...

By Doru from Toronto, Canada, Fall 2003. Venice, then up the River Po from Venice to Cremona (...or so we thought...), with day excursions to Murano and Burano, Padova, Ferrara, Mantova, Parma and Cremona, then on to Castellina in Chianti and parts of the Chiantigiana, ending in Florence. Fair...

An article about a different way to experience Venice, but also a good summary of the issues brought in by tourism. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/destinations/paddling-away-from-the-tourist-throngs-in-venice/article32127160/