Below you'll find a list of all posts from July, 2009
Take a look at your Italy itinerary. How many Mondays will you be spending in Italy? Do you know what you will be doing those days? Monday is a tricky day for touring in Italy. Many restaurants in Italy are closed on Monday. You will find a good number of stores are closed, at least for Monday morning. Most of …
Duncan Campbell, a freelance writer living in the Le Marche region of Italy, has contributed a number of articles to Dream of Italy on little-known areas of Italy, including his home region of Le Marche as well as the Cilento area of Campania. He has a knack for finding Italy’s unusual gems. That’s why I was thrilled for him to …
1. Because this is the best summer/year in a decade to go to Italy so you better get planning… In an effort to get seats filled, airlines are pricing their summer and fall fares this summer and fall at about half what they were last year. The same thing is happening with hotels and villa rentals. Smart travelers are taking …
Fattoria del Gelso is one of three Umbria villa rentals profiled in the June 2009 issue of Dream of Italy: As the owners of Bella Italia, a successful Italian gourmet and ceramics store in Bethesda, Maryland, Suzy and Bill Menard found themselves spending plenty of time in Deruta, Umbria’s ceramics capital, sourcing imports for their store. In time it made …
I’ve had my iPhone for many months but have only now just added “apps” or applications and feel like I have entered a whole new world. (Watch this space for more on travel and Italy-related apps – I’m testing a bunch of them out now.) As a sign that my priorities are clearly in line, my very first app download …
Italian olive oil has skyrocketed in popularity throughout the world in recent years and number one country for its export is the United
States. Yet, popularity has also given rise to poor imitations.
A prominent Tuscan olive oil producer shares the true ins and outs of olive oil with Dream of Italy.
