Palermo, Sicily. The rugged capital of Italy’s southernmost island, and not somewhere that makes it onto the Italian itinerary of most travellers. When I visited Palermo in July 2019, I initially…
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Before I visited Palermo, Sicily, I hadn’t heard anything good. ‘It’s big, it’s ugly and it’s dirty,’ was all that people said to me. Great, I thought. I hate big cities…
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When I found myself in Pisa this June after attending my first ever travel blogging conference in Trento, my friend Helene and I were determined to find a quiet Tuscan beach…
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Whenever people visit Italy, they always seem to go to the main tourist hot spots. Rome, Venice and Florence are so saturated by tourism that in the summer months they are…
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The moment I arrived at my aunt and uncle’s house in the tiny town of Barga, Italy, and they told me that there was a local winery offering tastings, I knew…
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Barga is a charming Medieval hilltop town in Northern Tuscany, in the province of Lucca. Not that many people have heard of Barga, and the tourists that do visit Barga tend to travel…
