I’m starting this post with hotels that didn’t turn out so well, then continuing to apartments. The scenes in the gallery above show both the reasons I chose these particular hotels; i.e. my weakness for terraces, and that even when the hotels turn out to be poor, there are always beautiful things to see […]
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Five days in Rome, off season
I considered putting a question mark after ‘off season’ because, unlike 2021 (see Firenze off season, parte uno and Firenze off season, parte due ) both Rome and Firenze were crazy crowded. It’s difficult to know if the crowds were due to pent up travel demand or simply more people wanting to see the holiday […]
Read MoreWhere to eat, Roma e Firenze, 2023
New Places Firenze Trattoria la Casalinga Via dei Michelozzi 9 (https://trattorialacasalinga.it/en/home-eng/) I ate here my last night in Firenze, after a lonely and fairly miserable week attending language school where I was forced to take private lessons. To add to the misery, my Air BnB apartment was horrible, gloomy and dark and poorly […]
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