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How to get to Island of Elba

How to get to Island of Elba

Elba Island: how to get there!

Events in Florence and Tuscany in May 2010

ok, first step: imagine the best you can get out of spring: an explosion of colours and of nature, the sweet smell of flowers and trees blooming, the warm long evenings, the feel of light...

Lucca Summer Festival 2010

This Festival has taken place in Lucca since 1998 and normally starts the first week end of July and lasts until the third week end of July. This is the 2010 programme and this are the artists confirmed so...

Nina’s Giro d’Italia experience – not to be missed!

We asked our friend Nina Peci just a few questions about going to see the Giro (she goes every year) and her response is so enthusiastic that it deserves its own post! Cycling, after...

Happy Saturday from Tuscany!

I hope you have an amazing Saturday around there. Here in Tuscany spring has finally arrived and this means flowers everywhere!  Next month there are various formal occasions to enjoy Flowers in Tuscany; for now, this is a post...

Forte dei Marmi: summer is glam!

I really like the picture above because it describes perfectly the atmosphere of  Forte dei Marmi. We can see a group of boys having fun in the main road, while the lady in the back is looking...

Top 5 Summer Music Festivals in Tuscany

As a music lover and an active traveller, I always dreamed to have an easy-to-use map with a selection (made by locals) of the best events I could take part in while visiting a new country....

Italia Wave Love Festival 2010 in Livorno

The Italia Wave Love Festival is and has been the flagship of music in Italy and in Europe for over 20 years. The Festival mainly presents rock music, although in recent years it has also featured...

Garfagnana: the Devil’s Bridge

There is a special place that distances only 22km (13 miles) from the center of Lucca. In a village called Borgo a Mozzano there is this astonishing bridge you see in the picture above. It’s Ponte della Maddalena or...

Pistoia Blues 2010

The Pistoia Blues Festival is one of the oldest music Festivals taking place in Tuscany in Italy. The first edition of the festival took place in 1980. Since then the greatest music artists have been staging in Pistoia: Muddy Waters,...

New York Times prefers Tuscany in Winter

New York Times agrees with me! Did you remember the first post of this blog? On January 27th I wrote an article about Tuscany in Winter (I have even created a category here on the blog...

New Years’ in March?

I couldn’t believe it when my friend told me that she was going to Pisa for New Years’ – now. “Uh, it’s too early… or too late” – I thought. “We’re still at the beginning of March!,” I replied....