Search results for "tuscany"
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143TravelCarla Bastos: Think Tuscany when a mid-winter getaway is in order
It’s Valentine’s Day! It’s the start of Lent! It’s (sort of, almost) springtime! A great article in the current edition of one...
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349Lifestyle & CultureSeasonal, simple, convivial: How one year of living in Tuscany taught me to eat like a local
I spent one year of my life in Florence, Tuscany’s main and most famous city. Even though my overall experience of that...
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787Lifestyle & CultureCarla Bastos in Tuscany: Leaving the touristy Italy to discover the hilltop city of San Gimignano
(Editor’s note: American Carla Bastos recently expatriated to Tuscany from the United States. You can read her series about that adventure here.)...
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1.1KLifestyle & CultureCarla Bastos’ Greener Pastures, Pt. 5: Train-hopping through Tuscany and supporting your adopted community
(Editor’s note: This post about her challenges in Tuscany is Pt. 5 in a continuing series of posts about Carla Bastos’ efforts to...
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3.7KLifestyle & CultureFlash Festival in Tuscany: The details on Europe’s only food, wine and EDM festival
Dispatches doesn’t usually break out individual events into posts, but this is one-of-a-kind … Europe’s only wine, food and electronic music festival....
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56.3KExpat EssentialsExpat Essentials: 1 euro deals on homes are attracting people back to Europe’s abandoned villages (updated)
(Editor’s note: Selling houses for a symbolic amount – 1 euro – to counter population decline in rural towns and villages is...
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130TravelCarla Bastos: Dreaming of a multi-year world cruise? Do your research
The failed Life at Sea around-the-world cruise has become the stuff of legend. The three-year excursion was billed as a dream journey...