There’s a reason Edward Gibbon’s The Rise and the Fall of the Roman Empire is the size of a telephone book. The Roman Empire stretched for 2,750,000 square kilometers in its’ height. To put that in perspective, the Roman Empire covered an area of what is today 53 countries, from Russia in Europe to Morocco […]
Grotta Gigante: The World’s Largest Tourist Cave
Italy is know for a lot of things – pizza, pasta, the Colosseum, gelato, and Ferrari. But did you know Italy is also one of the countries that has the most caves on Earth? More than 35,000 in fact! And the Friuli Venezia Giulia, the little region in the north of Italy that we call […]
Wine Wednesday: Allegrini Estates
The vineyards of the Valpolicella are tucked between Verona and the shores of Lake Garda. Once with a reputation for churning out wine so cheap it was only suitable for ordering at pizzerias, the Valpolicella now produces some of Italy’s finest reds. So when we wanted to discover the wines of the valley of many […]
10 Fun Facts about the Colosseum
Sometimes I find it is hardest to write about the world’s best known tourist attractions, like the Colosseum or the Eiffel Tower. I could give you a history lesson, but you can get that from just about any other website or from any Rick Steve’s or Frommers guidebook. I could rattle off numbers about its […]
Road Tripping Slovenia’s Emerald River
We’ve spent quite a bit of time in Slovenia over the last four years that we’ve been living in Italy. A mere month after we moved to Italy, we were off on a road trip to Pula, Croatia, and stopped for the first time to let our feet hit the ground in the mysterious former […]
Carnival Cruise Lines Opens First Asian Restuarant
This weekend we were invited aboard the Carnival Sunshine and got a peek at the recently revamped ship. Carnival Sunshine made it’s first voyage around Europe last week after Carnival Cruise Lines took the Carnival Destiny out of service earlier this year. The 17 year old ship was almost completely gutted and rebuilt with all […]
Wine Wednesday: Traveling the Santorini Wine Road
Santorini is famous for its wine and unique vinification process. Even though we spent our first day on Santorini on a Wine and Food Lovers Tour tasting Santorini’s best wines and learning how to cook some of its famous dishes like tomato fritters, as two oenophiles we couldn’t get enough! There are just 9 of […]
5 Italian Street Foods to Try
Google Italian food and immediately images of wood-fired pizzas and heaping plates of pasta pop-up. Like many, even after years of living in Italy, I don’t associate Italy with street food. We put the question to our Facebook community and taco carts were mentioned more than once along with Korean Yaki Mandu, steaming bowls of […]
A Musical Journey on the General Jackson Showboat
Home to the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Grand Ole Opry, and the world famous Wildhorse Saloon, Nashville is full of hotspots to have a stompin’ good time! Not called Music City for nothing, live music pours out of honky-tonk bars down both sides of 2nd Avenue, drawing music lovers looking for a good […]
A Wine and Food Lovers’ Tour of Santorini
Grape phylloxera, a type of parasite, destroyed most of the grapes in Europe in the late 19th century. The phylloxera plague came about when English botanists introduced American vines, which were partially resistant, in the 1850s. Vineyards in Britain were quickly devastated and the epidemic moved to mainland Europe wiping out most of the European […]
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