Below you'll find a list of all posts from August, 2006
It has been a stormy summer for Italy’s pesto and coffee industries. Storms, hailstorms to be exact, have literally been responsible for a pesto shortage. According to the AP, “Hailstones the size of tennis balls smashed glass panes on scores of greenhouses and pummeled fragile basil plants this month, wiping out entire crops near the town of Pra, west of …
If you’re looking for another good travel blog to add to your list — in addition to this one of course — check out National Geographic Traveler’s Inside Traveler Blog. Emily King and Jessie Johnson are the editors and come up with some pretty unique information and seem to be the queens of links – they find the coolest links …
There’s nothing like falling in love with a book and this summer I fell in love with The House of Scorta. I devoured it over a long hot weekend, which seemed fitting given the novel’s setting in the dry, hot region of Puglia in the southeast of Italy as described in the first paragraph of the book: The heat of …
After years of discussions, American and Italian officials have announced that the contested U.S. naval base in the beautiful Maddalena archipelago of Sardinia will be closed. This breathtakingly beautiful group of islands just north of the Sardinian coast might seem an unlikely place for a key American military base, but it has served as a port of call for all …
How’s this for a deal? Stay at the 3-star Hotel Riviera Dei Dogi in Venice for just $3 per night. No, there’s not a zero missing — that’s right just 3 dollars. I came across the deal on freetraveling.com, a Web site reporting the cheapest travel deals on the Internet, mostly hotel rate mistakes and airfare glitches. Here’s the fine …
In order to accomodate a growing number of Muslim tourists, officials in an Italian Adriatic resort town plan to create women-only beaches, according to The London Telegraph. The project in the town of Riccione, 90 miles east of Florence, will allow women to remove their headscarves and robes in privacy. Paritions will be erected to keep the women out of …
It may be prime time for Italians to be hitting the beaches, but that doesn’t mean that the water is welcoming. The summer of 2006 may be remembered as the summer of the jellyfish on the Mediterranean. Researchers say some 30,000 swimmers in Spain, Sicily and Northern Africa have been bitten by jellyfish so far this season. Scientists blame a …
The entire city of Rome shuts down. It’s difficult to find a spot of empty sand on any beach. The heat is unbearable. Although each of these statements is based on a grain of truth, these are some of the popular misconceptions about visiting the land of la dolce vita during the month of August, the most important vacation time …
Get the scoop from Dream of Italy on these unique Seattle eateries dedicated to serving up authentic gelato: Gelatiamo and Dolce Vita Gelateria and Italian Cafe.
Given today’s events, I have been giving some thought as to how travel to Italy may be affected. I’ve also consulted with other Italy specialists on their thoughts and experiences today. It may be wishful thinking, but I’m feeling pretty confident that people won’t be detered from traveling to Italy and that cancellations will be few. I think this has …
