Planning Your Trip to Italy: What to book when
November 19, 2012When planning your trip to Italy, you want to work efficiently. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with the amount of online information. It’s a challenge to know what needs to be booked in advance and what can be left open….
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Guest post at TBEX: How to be a travel consultant
November 05, 2012Every couple months I get a request from someone asking about how to become a travel consultant. I’ve coached people on how to do it, and I finally put my advice into this post, which was published on the Travel…
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Why you need a strategy for maps in Italy
October 26, 2012How do you find a new location in your home city? If you’re like most people you probably rely on your smartphone most of the time and you may use a GPS in the car (or your smartphone’s GPS). You…
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Dinner at Milan’s Cracco
October 16, 2012When my husband proposed marriage on the terrace of our Milan apartment 12 years ago, we celebrated our engagement with dinner at Milan’s Cracco-Peck restaurant, which had just opened. Every bite was incredible, and we said that we’d…
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Italy’s Dolomites: scenery, food and culture
September 24, 2012Italy’s Dolomite mountains are famous for their scenery, and rightly so, but the region is very different from the rest of Italy in its food and culture. Below are some highlights of a recent trip. An Italian friend and…
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Ten useful and interesting signs in Rome
April 27, 2012Street signs, placards, new signs, old signs – I photograph them all when I travel. Sometimes they represent interesting cultural differences, sometimes they’re just useful, and sometimes the photo is just a placeholder to give context to the rest of…
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A true home-cooked meal in Italy: Home Food
April 10, 2012If actions speak louder than words, then all I need to say is this: with just one evening in Turin recently, I chose a Home Food dinner over the city’s chocolate festival, CioccolaTO. The Turin CioccolaTO festival is a big deal. It’s on…
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Fontanafredda: a winery and a walk in the hills of Piedmont
March 30, 2012Located just outside the town of Alba and about an hour from the city of Turin, the vineyard of Fontanafredda has recently taken on new life after being purchased (from the bank) by gourmet food giant Eataly. On a recent March…
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Italy experts with great travel advice
October 05, 2011A recent coaching client exclaimed that she was so relieved to have found my website and services. She’d been searching the internet for good Italy travel advice, didn’t know which sites she could trust, and was suffering from information…
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