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  • Southern Italy Coast-to-Coast: Puglia to Sorrento
    posted April 7, 2008
    by Holly Hayes
    Sorrento This morning we left Puglia and drove about three hours west across Italy to the opposite coast. We had some difficulty getting started, due...
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  • Ruvo di Puglia
    posted April 4, 2008
    by Holly Hayes
    Our current base, for four full days, is the town of Ruvo di Puglia. We are quite close to the heel of the boot now...
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  • San Giovanni Rotondo, Monte Sant'Angelo, Troia Cathedral
    posted April 4, 2008
    by Holly Hayes
    Greetings from rainy Ruvo di Puglia! More on our current base soon, but first I have to back up to Monday (March 31) because it...
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  • Living La Dolce Vita on Lake Como
    posted March 28, 2008
    by Holly Hayes
    Villa Balbianello on Lake Como (a filming location for Casino Royale, the new Star Wars, and several other movies) Buongiorno from Italia! What a change...
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  • Down the Italian East Coast: Pesaro to Lucera
    posted April 1, 2008
    by Holly Hayes
    From Como we drove down the Autostrada (freeway) almost four hours to our stopover in Pesaro. We paid a somewhat hefty toll for the privilege,...
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  • Arrival in Puglia
    posted March 30, 2008
    by Holly Hayes
    We haven't had as much free time as I expected these last two days, so just a quick note to say we have arrived in...
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  • Alpine Train to St. Moritz
    posted March 26, 2008
    by Holly Hayes
    Today we took a train ride from Chur to St. Moritz, which takes two hours each way. The Alpine scenery was just as lovely as...
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  • Arrival in Switzerland
    posted March 25, 2008
    by Holly Hayes
    This morning we packed up and departed for Switzerland! It is really fun being in a new country. We've been in Germany for over four...
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  • Day Trip to Neuschwanstein
    posted March 25, 2008
    by Holly Hayes
    Yesterday we made a day trip to Neuschwanstein Castle and we had such a good time. The castle is located in the very south of...
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  • Easter in Augsburg
    posted March 23, 2008
    by Holly Hayes
    Happy Easter and greetings from Augsburg! Augsburg is a fairly large city not far from Munich in Bavaria. It doesn't have the narrow-winding-street charm of...
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  • Snow and Sun in Regensburg
    posted March 18, 2008
    by Holly Hayes
    View of Regensburg from the Old Stone Bridge Regensburg is another fantastic Bavarian city full of lovely things to see. We've changed our plans from...
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  • Beautiful Bamberg
    posted March 18, 2008
    by Holly Hayes
    We had such a nice time during our three nights in Bamberg. Neither of us had ever heard of it before, but its Old Town...
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