Below you'll find a list of all posts from January, 2014
Pizza! Pasta! Pastries! Imagine visiting Italy and being tempted by all kinds of wheat-filled goodness and NOT being able to eat it due to a gluten sensitivity? Traveling to Italy seems impossible for someone who can’t eat gluten (due to celiac disease or a gluten intolerance) but it is actually quite do-able IF you know what you are doing…You might …
While Italy is always a popular destination for travelers, 2014 is shaping up to be a very special year for travel to la bel paese. I’ve been reporting on Italy travel full-time for 11 years in my role as editor of Dream of Italy, and this year I’ve noticed five new Italy travel trends that are giving travelers more ways …
Updated 2019. Our friend Martha Bakerjian, the Italy guide for About.com, recently published a new mobile app: Italy Travel Tips & Hints, available on iTunes and Android. The tips and hints included in the app are based Martha’s personal travels throughout Italy over the past 30 years, as well as questions she gets from her readers. Here she helps travelers …
Updated 2019. Buon Anno my fellow Italophiles! Now, January is a big month in terms of Italy travel. Why? It is when people are planning and booking their trips for the coming year. I’d love to share 10 insights I’ve gained in how to plan ahead for the best trip to Italy imaginable. I call them the “10 Commandments of …
Share the magic of Venice with your children. Our mom/writer takes her kids to Venice and reports back on amazing kid-friendly finds from special tours to places to stay. Bologna – another magnificent destination for the history and the food!
Recently the world has found a new reason to visit Bologna — food tourism. The city has always been famous for its cooking schools, but now locals are increasingly offering classes, food tours and other culinary experiences.
When planning your trip to Bologna, consider our recommendations for must-see sites, charming places to stay, dining suggestions from locals and more.
They like to be different, the Bolognesi, and proud of it. Start chatting to a local in a bar and they'll soon trot out the great triple cliché: Bologna is La Dotta (the learned), La Rossa (the red) and La Grassa (the fat). They'll laughingly plead guilty to all three.
Our writer shares specific tips from her family trip to Venice, everything from transportation to souvenirs.
All the details from our main story "Exploring Venice with Kids" - family-friendly places to eat and sleep as well as child-friendly tours and a great cooking class for kids.
