Around the World with Liz Blog

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Beijing

Wanting to visit China with a tour rather than on our own due to language issues, but not wanting to share with a dozen or more other travellers, I researched several companies until I...

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Flight Mode

Apart from the many flights, both domestic and international, that I have had over the years in the standard big jets, be they Boeing 707s, 727s, 747s,  767s or Airbus A330s and A380s, I...

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Siena

Famous for its cuisine, art, museums, medieval cityscape and the Palio (a horse race held twice a year), the historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. This Etruscan,...

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Fabulous Firenze

Firenze, or Florence, is the capital of Tuscany and to my mind, the cultural capital of Italy. Considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, it was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and...

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Umbria

Umbria is referred to as il cuore verde d’Italia (the green heart of Italy). It is the only Italian region having neither a coastline nor a border with other countries. It is characterized by hills and...

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The Picturesque Cinque Terre

The Cinque Terre on the Ligurian coast of Italy are a photographer’s delight. These five villages cling to narrow bays and steep hillsides between Porto Venere and La Spezia. Their vibrantly coloured houses, rocky seafronts and marinas full...

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Sardinian Vacation

Clark Griswold has nothing on me – whatever could go wrong on this vacation, did. We chose to go to  Sardegna (Sardinia) after our week in Tuscany, as we had a week to spare...

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Pompeii and Pizza

When you go to Naples there are two must do’s – Pompeii and Pizza. Naples is Italy’s third largest city after Rome and Milan, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the...

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Catania and Taormina

Another port, another tour. This time we used the company ‘Sicily with Mario’. He had good reviews on TripAdvisor and they were well deserved. Our driver was very accommodating, to the point that he...