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Italian News Snippets: 10.21.07

Medical care away from home From witch doctors to physicians trained in Western medicine, the spectrum of healthcare providers in foreign countries varies. The local US Embassy is a good source of information about reputable practitioners and hospitals. Other sources include travel agents, hotel concierges, and English-language newspapers. A list of English-speaking physicians is also available from the International Association for Medical Assistance to Travellers.

Italian News Snippets: 10.21.07

Some Italian news for your Sunday reading pleasure: We’ve heard of the great Bernini because of his masterpieces of sculpture, but he was also a painter - and a new exhibit in Rome is showing off this lesser known side of Bernini’s ...

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Ireland Embassy and Consulates in Italy

Here is the contact information for the Irish Embassy and Consulates in Italy. While you hope to never need their services while you are traveling, it’s good to know they’re there if you do! Irish Embassy in Rome Piazza di Campitelli, ...

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Vandals Dye Trevi Fountain Water Red

Someone has dyed the water in the Trevi Fountain bright red:

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Pizzeria in Rome

Naples is the birthplace of pizza, but most tourists never get further south than Rome - so if you’re going to try pizza in Italy and you’re not heading to Naples, Rome is your best bet. Check out this video for an example of one ...

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Buying Fakes in Italy: Is a fake Gucci bag worth a €10000 fine?

Anyone who has walked through the touristy sections of Italy’s major cities has seen them - the peddlers of designer knock-offs who carry enormous black duffel bags and set up “shop” on any vacant patch of pavement. ...

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Italy

Italy, it is a huge country located in Europe, Southern Europe. It is another architectural famous country in Europe, or we can say it’s the greatest architectural country in Europe though as there is a proof in UNESCO World ...

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The Last Supper

Whether Milan should be included on your list of cities to visit in Italy is a matter of debate, but if you’re one of those people who simply needs to see things like Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, The Last Supper, in person, ...

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Museum of Purgatory

If you’re one of those people who wants to have the best cocktail party conversation when you come back from your trip to Rome, you’re going to have to do a lot better than recounting your visions of the Sistine Chapel for the first ...

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Smile and Fly With TUIfly

They fly from airports across Germany to largely Western European destinations across Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal, among others. Right now they have a bunch of flights being offered for around €20 (less than $30), ...

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Publishing Your Italy Travel Stories

Lots of people think that being a travel writer sounds like a great gig, and how it would be a really easy way to travel for free. Well, most travel writers will tell you that it’s an extraordinarily difficult way to make a living, ...

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Eurochocolate 2007: The Era of Chocolate

Perugia’s famous chocolate festival, Eurochocolate, is going on this week in the capital of Umbria. The fun got started on Saturday, when a giant PlayStation 3 game console - entirely made of chocolate - was unveiled, ...

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New Launches: BigAdda’s InstantMessenger, Y!’s oneSearch ...

s oneSearch, ClearTrip’s travel guide..and more; GeoBeats embeds maps and travel info in it’s travel video player; More Drama in the India OTA space: Travelocity & Expedia set to arrive; India beats Italy, Thailand, Australia to become ...

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Italian News Snippets: 10.14.07

Some Italian news for your Sunday reading pleasure: If you’re looking for a great meal in Siena, the Osteria le Logge gets high marks from Concierge. Italian fast food is now at the grocery store, too - Shelley found a few grocery ...

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ClickRiver Works

For instance, doing a search on “Britney Spears” returns ads for ring tones, a search on “Italy travel guide” returns an ad for a travel deal site, and a search for “Nike Air Force 1 camo” (which are sold out by the way! ...

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Squatting is Deemed Legal in Italy

I’ve been dreaming about living in Italy for years now, and I have to say that there’s plenty out there to discourage me. The latest thing is the rapidly dropping value of the US dollar against, well, everything else. ...

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Make Up a Travel Rumor, Win Lufthansa Tickets

If you’re used to reading about travel contests where you think it’s too hard to enter, this is one travel contest you’ll be pleased to hear about. For this one, you don’t even need any travel expertise - you just need to be able to ...

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Italian Idiomatic Expressions: Water in Mouth

I love Italian idiomatic expressions - those sayings you just can’t translate directly but which make the Italian language the colorful and charming language it is. Today’s saying is about keeping quiet, or rather a particular way in ...

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What Italy Has Taught Me

(It’s well worth a read, especially if you’re either visiting Italy anytime soon or hosting Italians outside Italy.) I don’t live in Italy (yet!), but I think I’ve visited enough times and done enough reading about the [...]

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Comment on World’s 10 Most Disappointing Tourist Spots by Italian ...

spots in Italy made it onto this list of the world’s most disappointing tourist spots - Rome’s Spanish Steps and […]

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Australia Travel Guide

The Australian meat is also of high quality-tendered and more pleasant than in Italy- where you may eat big beefsteaks, accompanied by potatoes enriched with butter or creams or sour creams. But it is Meat Pie the true institution of ...

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Travel Guide — Rome, Italy Pt.2

Table of contents for Travel Guide -- Rome, ItalyTravel Guide -- Rome, ItalyTravel Guide -- Rome, Italy Pt.2 Not too far from the Vatican is Del San Angelo, which was originally conceived as a mausoleum for Emperor Hedron. ...

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Going to Jail in Italy for the Food: Volterra’s Prison Restarant

Foodies looking for a seriously different experience to brag about will want to book a table at the Fortezza Medicea restaurants in Volterra, near Pisa. It’sa restaurant in a prison - and not a historical prison, either. ...

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European LCCs Winter Round-Up

Italian cutie MyAir seems to be more focused on the winter season; travelers who want to fly between November and March 2008 are being offered an all-inclusive rate of €50 ($70) for flights within Italy and €60 for cross-Europe flights. ...

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Hotels

Milan hotels, Italy. Discount reservation. Cheap, budget and luxury Milan hotels. Accommodation at four, five stars and very cheap hotels in Milan. Hotels and Villas in Crete, Chania - Travel Guide with hotels, apartments, villas, ...

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Travel Guide — Rome, Italy

Hi, welcome to watchmojo.com. My name is Karen and today we will be profiling the city of Rome also known as the Eternal City. Now Rome boasts a history of about 3000 years when little tribes established themselves along the Tiber river ...

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Venice: Fly Like A Crazy Man With Alpi Eagles

That's what you get if you book a flight with Italy-based Alpi Eagles. The airline has stopped flying upside-down and now heads to an eclectic range of destinations from its Venice hub: other Italian cities, Ukraine, Spain, ...

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Bus Travel in Italy

Generally speaking, and especially if you’re sticking to the bigger tourist destinations in Italy, you’ll have no trouble relying on the country’s train network to get you around. And once you’re in the cities, you can take advantage of ...

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Italy journal: Travel guide for Independent Europe tour (Italy ...

"Looking for an itinerary to do independent Europe tour- here is our suggestion". a entry by unnimaya from a trip to Italy. Europe Independently By Unnimaya. Travel guide , Itinerary , Tips and Advice for Independent Europe travel ...

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San Marino Travel Guide

A country within a country -it lies totally within the borders of Italy, San Marino is an intriguing nation- small, compact, interesting. The third smallest country in the world; the oldest republic in the world; and a nation which has ...

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Success of Italy in the United States

With Travel Mall you can do your reservations as many other North American tourists have done before, you can book your hotels in Rome in Florence and in Venice, but you can also explore the smaller towns that have a big success ...

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Italian News Snippets: 10.21.07

Travelers also may want to pack a supply of loperamide hydrochloride, an analgesic and antipyretic drug, an anti-inflammatory agent, an antihistamine, and an antifungal cream. Prednisone is recommended for persons with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma. In addition, a mild hypnotic agent (eg, zolpidem tartrate [Ambien]) can be helpful for adjusting to new sleep schedules. The need for other medications, such as prophylactic drugs for malaria and altitude sickness, should be determined on the basis of the traveler's destination. While traveling, patients are advised to avoid any antibiotics and nonprescription medications that they have not taken previously.

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