Our last 10 days, Cinque Terre, Nice & Provence. Our last 10 days, Cinque Terre, Nice & Provence. Or another way to say it is from the Italian Riviera to the French Riviera… A regional train delivers us, across beautiful Tuscany countryside, from Villa Campestri to Florienze,
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Rome & Siena, party & passion (food, fun & friends) Roma! So here we are in Rome once again for a few days….always lots to see & do. Our quirky adventures start with a very old bent-over Italian doorman, probably the owner, always at the desk, no
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Bersaglieri…feathered hats, running marksmen, swords & cakes. The Bersaglieri (Marksmen in English) later to become the Royal Italian Army. In 1836, the relatively poor Kingdom of Sardinia could not afford large numbers of cavalry, so a quick-moving infantry corps of marksmen were needed. These troops were trained to
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