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Trip reports:  March 2017 - Italy through fresh eyes, chasing the sun in March in 4 parts
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Crisscrossing the Camino: 5 weeks in Northern Spain Part 4 - Burgos to Santiago

September 24, 2017
BURGOS Camino Frances After Santander I "crisscrossed" the Camino and took a bus from the Camino del Norte to the Camino Frances, to Burgos. Burgos felt very much like a...
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Crisscrossing the Camino: 5 weeks in Northern Spain Part 5: Coastal villages & the Picos

September 24, 2017
Coastal Galicia, Asturias and Cantabria - The westernmost half of the north coast of Spain is an area of rolling green hills wedged between the sea and the Picos de Europ...
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Crisscrossing the Camino: 5 Weeks in Northern Spain Part 6 - La Rioja and Navarra

September 24, 2017
Laguardia Laguardia, population 1500, sits at the top of a hill, its tightly packed stone buildings enclosed by massive stone walls. From the walls are views of the...
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Part 4: March in Northern Italy: Milan, Genoa, Lake Como, Lake Lugano, Pavia

May 02, 2017
I spent eight days looking at Italy "through fresh eyes" - doing the classic first timers trip to Italy - Venice, Florence and Rome. This was my 13th trip to Italy, but i...
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Italy Through Fresh Eyes: Chasing the Sun in Italy in March - Part 3 Rome

May 02, 2017
Thursday, March 23, 2017 - Rome We ended up getting to the train station almost an hour before our train to Rome so we sat and had cappuccinos at a train station café li...
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Italy Through Fresh Eyes - Chasing the Sun in Italy in March: Part 2 Florence

May 02, 2017
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 [Sun and clouds, high 60s] - On to Florence! (After a short stroll around the the ‘Ghetto’ section of Venice) Train was from 11:25-13:30 so we bou...
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Italy through Fresh Eyes - Chashing the sun in Italy in March - Part 1 Venice

May 02, 2017
Italy thru fresh eyes / Chasing the sun in March I decided to go to Italy for my spring trip for three reasons: first, well it’s Italy; I really didn’t need any other rea...
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