By the numbers: Italy Top 10 in 2012
December 03, 2012I’ve already started working on spring Italy trips for 2013, but I sat down to look at where my clients went in 2012, and created this list of top Italy destinations for 2012 based on number of hotel nights per…
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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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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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Five unique Italy experiences
August 24, 2011Here at Italy Beyond the Obvious, every now and then we get a traveler open to anything. They say: I can go to any place in Italy, any time of year. When and where should I go? I’d suggest planning…
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Book review: 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go
June 07, 2011Let me get right to the point: I highly recommend this book. It’s as useful for planning an actual trip as it is enjoyable to read while dreaming about a hopefully-maybe-someday trip. To be honest, I didn’t expect…
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Five favorite books for travelers to Italy or Italophiles
December 16, 2010The five recommendations below are all on my bookshelf. They are the ones I pick up frequently: the ones bookmarked with color-coded sticky flags, and the ones that I buy again and again as gifts for people. For…
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Italian soccer for the traveler
October 20, 2010Point me to a pair of skis, hiking boots, a bike – or even a sports bar with a hockey game on – and I’m happily occupied for hours. But I am soccer-challenged, so thanks to Jessica Spiegel of JessicaTravels.com,…
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Meeting boys on Italian trains
April 09, 2010I thought it would be fun to enter this little story into the Grantourismo–HomeAway travel writing competition! An American friend and I were on a train full of Italian military boys. Noses in guidebooks, we’d been planning our day trip…
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Booking hotels in Italy: 10 tips
March 04, 2010Booking a fantastic hotel in Italy can be a daunting task. It goes without saying that you need to check recent reviews and don’t just look at the review score: read the comments thoroughly. Cross-check reviews across different review sites,…
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