The working day  doesn’t start too early at La Casa delle Acque, a small organic orange farm at the foot of Mount Etna in Sicily. It’s around 8 O’clock. The sun has lit [...]

Shakespeare started Act III of Merchant of Venice with the line “Now, what news on the Rialto?”. This important and historic bridge in Venice, Italy was the first to be built across [...]

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Lake Colmo in Northern Italy has the reputation as being where the Italians go for vacation or at least go to avoid the heat of the Summer in Milan. This is the [...]

The Venice Experiment is almost my idea of a dream trip. I would love to spend a year living somewhere, and really exploring the culture. I feel like when you live in [...]

The boats come and go all day, at night they are either bobbing up and down on the water or sitting on the sand, their presence reminds us just how fresh the [...]

Venice is one of my favourite cities to visit, I think it is beautiful and calming in spite of the crowds. After a long, hot day trip to Trieste it was refreshing [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Andy Steves about Rome, Italy. Andy talks about practical issues like how to get into and around Rome, how to connect to the Rome of the Roman [...]

I love peaking into courtyards in other countries. It always seems like there is a secret world back here that tourists don’t see. OK, perhaps not as secret here at this courtyard [...]

Here is something that you won;t see unless you get up early. At dawn St Mark’s Square in Venice is empty of tourists and even empty of pigeons. For other travel photos [...]