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(This is a paid advertisement.) If you’re looking for a change of scenery this year consider traveling to Italy with your own private Sommelier! Laurie Forster, The Wine Coach® is sponsoring a 6-day wine tour of the Piedmont region from April 16 to 22, 2007. Touring the majestic countryside of Piedmont, you will visit six prestigious wineries in Barolo, Barbaresco …
I love Arthur Frommer. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting for him and writing for his magazine, but mostly I love him because he still delivers the goods on budget travel. For example, the announcement in his recent column: This spring you’ll be able to make that trip for $299 per person round-trip, departing from New York during the short …
This is an excerpt from the Dec 2006/Jan. 2007 Special Report: Rome: Starting this month, museum goers unaccompanied by tour guides will need to wait an extra hour until 10:00 a.m. to enter the Vatican Museums. Since the museums will close at the same time as in 2006, 1:45 p.m. in the winter and 4:45 p.m. in the summer, independent …
As you may or may not know, in Italy, the government establishes official sales periods for stores to discount their merchandise. The two big “saldi” months are January and July. Naples will kick off the winter sales period on January 5, followed by Genoa and Turin on January 6, according to Agencia Giornalistica Italia. The Confcommerico Studies Centre predicts the …
Renting a car in Italy? Rent from Hertz if you are one of those parents whose kids must have an in-car DVD player. According to Easier Travel, “The Hertz DVD system, set to become the ultimate holiday accessory, is fully transportable, so can also be used in the hotel room, avoiding those expensive film rentals.” Wantedinrome.com reports that 2007 rail …
It is a fantastic experience to visit Rome at Christmas. If you go, try to get tickets to Midnight Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica… To request Christmas (or Easter) tickets: Contact Monsignor Roger Roensch or Sister Mary Joanna RSM at the Bishop’s Office for U.S. Visitors to the Vatican, Via dell’ Umiltá 30, 00187, Rome, Italy. Call (39) 06 690011 …
Listen up! Two weeks ago, we e-mailed out exclusive discount coupons for Dream of Italy products ONLY to those on our FREE e-mail update list. We’re getting ready to offer some additional holiday discounts — but you will only hear about them if you receive our e-mail update. We usually send one out NO MORE THAN TWO TIMES A MONTH …
The New York Times reported this weekend that filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has turned his attention to his native region of Basilicata. He purchased a 19th-century palazzo in the small town of Bernalda close to Matera, where Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ was filmed, and plans to open it this year as a 10-room hotel. At Dream of Italy, …
Updated 2018. A customer emailed me today to make sure that our St. Peter’s Christmas cards were on their way because she’s leaving for Rome next week and is going to mail them from the Vatican Post Office. What a cool idea! Even if you won’t be in Rome for Christmas, whenever you do visit Vatican City, mailing letters or …
Okay, it is not in Italy. But indulge me this little play on words and allow me to go off-topic (my other passion, besides Italy is dogs) to introduce you to this amazing Spot – a homeless smooth fox terrier I am fostering and hoping to place in a lucky home. Because the people who get Spot will be the …
