Posted by Charlene Jaszewski on May 9th 2008 in Travel Tips, Travel Blogs
Quick: which sounds like a better vacation to you:
* Plan out infinite details, take a tour bus, rush from site to site, have a tour guide tell you where to go, stay in an American-style hotel, eat in regular restaurants
* Rent a local house, hang out with locals, buy local groceries, have lazy unplanned days of randomness
If you liked the second option, you’ll fit right in with the “slow travel” movement. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Charlene Jaszewski on March 4th 2008 in Travel Blogs, Italy
Imagine a country in which the denizens are experts at il dolce far niente (sweet doing nothing). Italy is a country in which a great day is one spent sipping espresso (the national breakfast) and people- watching in a piazza. Elizabeth Gilbert in her book Eat Pray Love says she learned from her time in Italy that “the more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life’s achievement.”
As a recovering Silicon-Valley workaholic, the idea of living this sort of existence both titillates and terrifies me. But I wanted to know more about it…
This is the first in a series of blogs that will introduce you to cool people blogging about their lives in venerable Italy.
Most Italian blogs I found carry the same observations from the authors: no matter how long they lived there they would always be outsiders, they miss clothes dryers, that the continual juxtaposition of the pope and naked bottoms in the media is amusing.
zoomata: Nicole Martinelli, based in Milan, writes in a smart and sometimes snarky style on politics and current events in Italy. Her “daily life” articles are a hoot – read about the recently found Mafia 10 Commandments and official love parking lots. Nicole also writes for Spot-on. Read the rest of this entry »
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