In March I wrote about Turin, which was a part of our autumn road trip through Italy and Germany. After Turin, we crossed the Alps and headed to Southern Germany, where our dear friends Branka and Otto have a small hotel in a small town surrounded by the Black Forest.
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Last year's favorites, V
Even though my Last Year’s Favorites is an annual post that I intended to write at the beginning of each year, last year saw it in February- now, it’s April, but this kind of post seems more convenient than ever.
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Finally, Turin
There have been requests, mostly (exclusively) from my friends, to write about our visit to Turin. Following some inexplicable inner schedule of mine, Turin, despite setting itself firmly as of my favorite Italian towns, kept being postponed.
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Two days in Lucca
Sunday morning in Lucca. We are taking a morning passeggiata, a walk with no particular goal except looking for everyday life in a foreign place, as we always do. Small Italian towns and villages repeatedly surprise me with their liveliness- it was a rainy morning, but still, the locals were there, active.
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Two days in Florence
Florence managed to enchant us despite the tourist hordes we dreaded, and for a city almost synonymous with the Renaissance and the powerful families from the period, looking back to our visit I see a modern city, with cool market, hipster bars serving chai latte (and it’s Italy I’m talking about!) and quirky shops.
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