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Exploring the Mediterranean with Holland America’s ms Veendnam, Installment II

By Ed Boitano
in :  World Travel
Barbary monkey with the ms Veendam and the Strait of Gibraltar in the background

Well, I’m still basking in the memories of my cruise experience aboard Holland America’s ms Veendam. At the end of each day’s illuminating tours of the ports of call – Lucca and Pisa, Malaga, Barcelona, Monaco and Gibraltar – I would excitedly rush back to the vessel to my favorite lounge, the Crow’s Nest, where I’d compile my notes over a crisp, full flavored Budweiser Budvar (circa 1245).

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Trulli Charming

By Stephen Brewer
in :  World Travel
the landscape of Alberobello, southeastern Puglia region, Italy

It’s almost impossible not to fall under the spell of this dreamscape where round, domed houses known as trulli rise from gentle hillsides. Alberobello will make you feel like you’ve stepped into the pages of a fairy tale, but this small town in Italy’s southeastern Puglia region is decidedly of this world, fashioned from limestone, surrounded by centuries-old vineyards and olive groves, and home to 11,000 residents.

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Glamour Under the Italian Sun: The Hotel Santa Caterina

By Stephen Brewer
in :  World Travel
Hotel Santa Caterina on the edge of a cliff on the Amalfi coast, southern Italy

How was your journey? The Gambardella family, several generations of whom are usually on the scene, have been asking this question ever since they began welcoming guests to their villa-like retreat on the edge of a cliff along the legendary Amalfi Coast of southern Italy in 1904.

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Lake Como 

By Richard Carroll
in :  World Travel

A cluster of five mountains like ancient trusting friends encompass Lake Como with tales to tell. They tower to the horizon in a domineering maze of peaks, deep irregular valleys, and crusted sheer-sided facings. Deeply sculptured from wind and rain, and often cloud-covered, they stand like faithful world-worn sentinels. Tagged the Pre-Alps, the mountains cast long shadows across the lake’s glacier-formed deep blue water creating a textured moment of sun and shade. Residents and visitors alike recognize that in only a few places on the planet are water and mountains in such remarkable intimacy and the recognition inspires soft expressions of awe and delight.

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Caffè San Marco: A Microcosm of Triesticity

By Gary Singh
in :  World Travel

As a result, the majority of Trieste residents these days are native Italian speakers, but in a place where Italian, Germanic and Slavic influence and language all bleed into each other. The geographic borders make no sense to anyone. You meet Italian nationals with Germanic surnames and vice-versa. You meet Slavs whose mother tongue is Italian.

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Lake Garda: Poetry in Motion

By Tom Weber
in :  World Travel

For centuries, artists and aristocrats, divas and dictators, poets and politicos, why even James Bond himself, have fallen under the spell of alpine breezes, the scent of lemon blossoms and the mesmerizing shades-of-blue of Italy's largest lake, Lago di Garda. Straddling three distinct regions: Veneto, Lombardy and Trentino-Alto Adige, this ladle-shaped body of water beckons travelers to experience the Italian dolce far niente (the sweetness of doing nothing).

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Dear Italian-American: Travel Advice on Northern Italy

By Ringo Boitano
in :  Travel Advice

I am planning my first trip to Italy. I want to see Rome, Florence and Venice. I plan on arriving in Milan. Friends have told me to quickly bail out of Milan and use it as a place to head out to more historic places. Should I ignore the city and go on my way? --- Susan of Portland, OR

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Abandoned Under the Pugliese Blue

By Tom Weber
in :  World Travel

When I’m not in my wellies tending to our two-acre plot of olive trees, tucked inside the Valle d’Itria of the Alto Salento sub-region of Puglia in the southeastern reaches of Italy, I like to lace up my hiking boots, grab my camera and walking stick and head out on long, photo-shoot treks around my ‘hood.

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Pizza Napoletana: Naples’ Gift to the World.

By Ringo Boitano
in :  Eclectic Stuff
Pizza Napoletana

My dream was about to become a reality. Based in Los Angeles, I was used to taunts from my otherwise wonderful East Coast friends, who were never shy about battering me with people in Southern California don’t know what REAL pizza is. Though I had eaten my way through New York, Boston and Philly in the past and had sampled their delicious pies – I would ask them countless times why it was a REAL pizza and others were not.

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The First International Destination You’d Visit in the Post Pandemic World

By T-Boy Society of Film & Music
in :  World Travel

The latest T-Boy Society of Film & Music poll is devoted to our members' favorite international destination. That is, the first international destination we'd visit when the roadways, skyways and waterways are deemed safe to travel. You'll find members' selections to be illuminating, telling us much about their own personal preferences.

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