Montecatini Terme 2016 My sister and I first visited Montecatini Terme in 2016 and I originally included that trip in my Lucca and the Garfagnana post but after visiting again in 2018 I decided to do a new post combining the 2016 and 2018 trips. I’ve divided this post into sections for 2016 and 2018, as well […]
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Perugia, Lake Trasimeno, Assisi and Cortona
I’ve written in some other posts that I chose Perugia as part of our 2018 itinerary because my sister wanted to see Assisi and it looked relatively easy to get there from Perugia. I had also hoped to see some of the other towns of Umbria, known as the ‘green heart’ of Italy, but found […]
Read MoreForty Eight Hours in Bologna
I’m not sure I can explain how we ended up in Bologna for the first two days of our 2018 Italy trip without making readers’ eyes glaze over. Over the years I’d read that Bologna and Emilia Romagna, in general, had become something of a culinary destination. Plus I was fascinated by the fact that […]
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