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Just Another Big American Visiting Italy
Blog: Travel With Julie - 2 May 2012
Lucky for me, hubs rarely reads my blog. By some chance if you see this one babe, I'll ask for forgiveness later (tee-hee)! Hubs often feels like the jolly green giant when we travel through Italy.
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Pic of the Week: Alberobello, Puglia, Italy
Blog: Solo Traveler - 2 February 2012
A Solo Travel Society member shares a photo of the trulli, unique limestone dwellings in Alberobello, Italy.
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Orecchiette: Little Ears Pasta Made In Puglia
Blog: Travel With Julie - 18 January 2012
Italy isn't all spaghetti and fettucini, you know! In fact, in the region of Puglia (the heel of the boot) orecchiette (little ears pasta) lines store shelves.
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Charming Trullo B&B In Alberobello
Blog: Travel With Julie - 8 January 2012
As I was planning my trip to Alberobello, my intent was to stay in a trullo. How cool would that be, right? And, it was!
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Italy Is All About The Food
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 4 January 2012
We ate a lot of amazing food in Italy. And then we went back for seconds.
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I Blame Hollywood
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 23 December 2011
My first, and last, experience in underground caves.
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Things To See In Alberobello
Blog: Travel With Julie - 16 December 2011
The main attraction in Alberobello, Italy, is the trulli. There are two primary areas composed mostly of trulli: Rione Monti, a touristic district on a slope facing the modern town center; and Aia Piccola, a quieter residential district. Rione Monti...
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Trulli in Southern Italy
Blog: Travel With Julie - 12 December 2011
Heading southwest from Naples toward the small town of Alberobello located in the region of Puglia, you begin to notice a strange oddity sprinkled throughout the landscape: cone-shaped houses made of stacked stone.
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Puglia Italy App—The Green & Local Side
Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 22 October 2011
Travel guide apps are an easy addiction with photographs and descriptions that draw you into other lands and cultures.
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Italy’s Stiletto Wishes You Were Here
Blog: Suzy Guese - 26 August 2011
Heading south from Otranto, I follow the SP358, the road in Puglia that hugs the coast down to the point of no return in Italy. The howling of crickets and the sound of the breeze out the car window creates an enchanting song. I have always had images in my mind of what the very [...]
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Locorotondo, Italy Wishes You Were
Blog: Suzy Guese - 28 May 2011
When you read that the most beautiful village in all of Italy is just a few miles away, you can’t fight the urge to go and judge for yourself. Italy crawls with villages that could easily be the most beautiful in all of the country. Locorotondo in the country’s southern Puglia region has the coveted [...]
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Southern Italy Snapshots: Puglia
Blog: My Bella Vita - 10 February 2011
Our Southern Italy Snapshots series is into full swing and we’ve stopped both in bella Calabria and hopped off of the mainland with a visit to world-famous Sicily. Today we are at the back of the boot in Puglia, a region that is quickly becoming a must-see destination in the bel paese.
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The Trulli Houses of Alberobello
Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 18 January 2011
A small town in the Italian region of Puglia, Alberobello is famous for its unique and fairytale-like trulli houses. The trulli are very unusual houses and an example of a building technique that has survived from prehistoric times. Built by simply laying the stones on top of each other, without using mortar, they are characterized [...]
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Take My Luggage; Please!
Blog: Ron in Rome - 5 December 2010
For many travelers, storing your luggage on a brief stay in a city – traveling by train or plane – can be a problem. Most of the larger cities and airports do have a “LEFT LUGGAGE” service (deposito bagagli). The fees are very reasonable and I’ve used this service at multiple train stations. With the [...]
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God on the Walls: Abandoned Monastery Outside Grottaglie
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 8 November 2010
If you walk far enough down a dirt road outside of town; if you stalk through the weeds and sweatshirt-snagging thistles; if you scramble and heave and hoist yourself over a crumbly stone wall and follow the dent in the foliage that has become a path, you will find it: an abandoned monastery covered in [...]
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Alberobello, Italy Wishes You Were Here
Blog: Suzy Guese - 22 October 2010
In the Puglia region of southern Italy, known as the heel of the country, the town of Alberobello covers in some of Italy’s most unique structures. All around Alberobello, witch hat looking homes scatter about, with some adorned in strange Christian and pagan symbols. Driving into the city around dusk, birds circle throughout the sky [...]
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Castel del Monte in Italy Wishes You Were Here
Blog: Suzy Guese - 1 October 2010
Driving through olive groves and sun scorched plains, on top of a hill, a fortress breaks up the landscape of Italy’s heel. In the middle of nowhere in the Puglia region of Italy, a lone castle waits, elevated from the common man or woman. This castle is unlike most in Italy, enough that UNSECO gave [...]
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Grottaglie Or Bust!: Fame Fest ’10
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 27 September 2010
Siesta-dazed and still covered in little bits of glitter, I’m holed up in my hotel room in Grottaglie. Laptop on my lap, balcony door open a crack, listening to the moan of the fan, I don’t know where to start. I could spend the next two months writing about this weekend, here in this random [...]
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Otranto, Italy Wishes You Were Here
Blog: Suzy Guese - 16 July 2010
The town of Otranto rests just before the tip of Italy’s boot heel in the Puglia region. Said to be Italy’s main port to the Orient for nearly 1,000 years, Otranto was fast asleep. Arriving later in the day on an empty stomach, I stumbled upon a restaurant still filled with diners. The owner I [...]
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Kate Bailward on Living and Traveling in Puglia
Blog: My Bella Vita - 7 June 2010
Last month we heard from recent Puglia transplant Tina Ferrari begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting on what makes Puglia so special. Today, I’m sharing an interview I did with another expat in Puglia, Blogging from the Boot award winner and maniac-driving ESL teacher, Kate Bailward. 1. I read that you moved to Puglia on a whim to teach ESL. [...] Related posts:
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Why Puglia? An Interview with Expat in Puglia, Tina Ferrari
Blog: My Bella Vita - 17 May 2010
A good number of people who contact me about traveling in Calabria are also interested in visiting another region in Italy’s mezzogiorno. Sometimes it is Basilicata, sometimes it is Campania but oftentimes, it is Puglia. I’ve been and like others, I found the region full of fresh food, magical scenery and contagious charm but instead [...]
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Thanksgiving
Blog: Craigorio Does Italia - 1 December 2009
Roasted turkey, road trips, and jam sessions have filled the days and evenings of late November as my first month in Bari comes to a close. Work Working with this English school is a pretty entertaining gig. It’s not much … Continue reading →
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We’ve Created a Monster
Blog: Craigorio Does Italia - 24 November 2009
“Abbiamo cresute un Mostro” (We’ve created a monster!!) says Iside to Betta as they walk away from a very vulgar conversation with me in the kitchen about Italian bureaucracy. I’ve become a bit more comfortable with them over the past … Continue reading →
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On the Southern Italian Coast
Blog: Abandon the Cube - 14 November 2009
We arrived in Bari, on Italy’s southern coast, early in the morning and decided to just walk around the city and absorb as much as possible on foot. It was Sunday, so the town seemed deserted with the exception of the churches.
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