Italy

Beat the Heat: Beach Getaways Right Outside Rome

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Summer high-season in Rome means a flood of tourists into the already scorching city. Add in a few thousand // eager foreigners and the city becomes a humid, crowded bubble of heat. With temperatures reaching easily in the nineties, it is difficult to make your way around the city without wilting like an under-watered flower. [...]

September 6, 2011 2 comments READ MORE →

The Sweet Life in Testaccio, Italy

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This morning I walked down to the Testaccio neighborhood of Rome, which is south-east of the centro storico where I live. It is just across the Tiber River from the trendy Trastevere neighborhood and it is about a half-hour //   walk from the centrally located campo de’ fiori. Testaccio has a history similar to [...]

August 9, 2011 0 comments READ MORE →

Budget Summer Sun with HostelBookers Travel Accommodation Sale

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What’s top of your summer holiday list? Somewhere with a pool? Somewhere close to the beach? Or somewhere with sea view where you can enjoy a drink at sunset? Well, if you want all this without leaving a hole in your pocket, take a look at 3 top European places which promise budget fun in [...]

June 23, 2011 0 comments READ MORE →

The Perfect Mother’s Day Gift: A Holiday in Italy

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Looking for the perfect Mother’s Day gift? And one that you can enjoy too? Then consider joining “Divas & Daughters” which heads to Venice and Florence, Italy from November 13-20, 2011. The package that A Girl’s Gotta Go has coordinated includes: Round-trip Air 4 nights in Florence 2 nights in Venice Dinner & Wine Tasting [...]

April 27, 2011 0 comments READ MORE →

Studying Abroad in Portovenere, Italy: A Big City Girl’s Experiences in a Small Town Abroad

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I grew up and currently reside in Los Angeles County, California. Los Angeles is a very large city where there are lots of things to see and do. It is so big and active that some residents are content with staying in LA forever. I, for one, am not one of those people but I [...]

December 8, 2010 3 comments READ MORE →

Dream Dates Around the World

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Where has all the romance gone? One of my friend’s recent first date involved a copy of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and an order of chicken wings from a pizza place. It was hardly her idea of romance, or mine. So if we could cast off the shackles of the ordinary (or [...]

November 30, 2010 6 comments READ MORE →

Hotel Aficionado: Relais Fontana di Trevi

Hotel Aficionado: Relais Fontana di Trevi Getting a flight to Croatia from the United States was not as easy as one would think. They were either exorbantly priced or required overnight layovers. I finally settled on the plan of flying into a major European city and catching a local Croatian Airlines flight. This landed me [...]

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September 26, 2010 0 comments READ MORE →

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