Tag Archives: The Sunday Traveler
The Sunday Traveler~Italy Finale~Venice
The Sunday Traveler is wrapping up the flashback of Italy, 2002, in this final post, ending in Venice. The group’s last stop before heading home. I will be back in the future with some postcards from Rome, which I have … Continue reading
The Sunday Traveler~Italy, Part 9; Liguria and Siena
The Sunday Traveler travels down memory lane with these posts from 2002 when Italy was on my agenda. Today will highlight briefly both Santa Margherita Ligure, an Italian port in the region of Liguria. This day provided a brief visit … Continue reading
The Sunday Traveler~Italy, Part 8~Portofino 2
Can you imagine? A warm sunny day in Portofino, looking out in stunned silence at the beauty of the Ligurian Sea. And now, eighteen years later, I look at the photos as I finally upload them onto my digital files, … Continue reading
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Tagged Italy, ligurian sea, photography, Portofino, The Sunday Traveler, travel
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The Sunday Traveler~Italy Part 7, Portofino
April 21, 2002. The Sunday Traveler was on a tour of Tuscany; this date we drove to Portofino, in a time that seems so long ago. Seven months after September 11 and the world had begun to relax a little … Continue reading
The Sunday Traveler~Italy Part 6, San Gimignano
The Sunday Traveler has been taking you down memory lane the last several weeks, remembering a 2002 trip to Italy, and getting hard copy photos onto my digital file. At last. Sometimes it takes a couple years to get things … Continue reading
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Tagged antiquity, duomo di san gimignano, Italy, photography, san gimignano, The Sunday Traveler, travel
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The Sunday Traveler~Italy, Part 5, Florence
Firenze. The Sunday Traveler was on the road towards Florence this day in April back in 2002. Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance, the medieval European trade and finance center. We started out early in the morning to travel from … Continue reading
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Tagged famous sights, firenze, florence, Italy, ponte vecchio, sightseeing, The Sunday Traveler, thoughts, travel photography
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The Sunday Traveler~Italy, Part 4, Pisa
Pisa’s Piazza del Miracoli, 2002. The Sunday Traveler is revisiting this wonderful week here with you; getting hard copy prints onto my digital files at the same time…finally. This wonderful piazza includes, in addition to the Tower, the Baptistery of … Continue reading
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Tagged baptistery of st. john, cathedral, Italy, leaning tower, piazza del miracoli, pisa, The Sunday Traveler, travel
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The Sunday Traveler~Italy, Part 3, Montecatini Alto
The Sunday Traveler visited Italy in 2002; a home base for one lovely week was Montecatini Terme, a small town known for its spas and thermal spring waters. In medieval times this area was swampland until the Medici family began … Continue reading
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Tagged funicular, Italy, Montecatini Alto, montecatini terme, retrospective, The Sunday Traveler, travel
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The Sunday Traveler~Italy Revisited, Part 2
The Sunday Traveler is looking back at travel memories of a trip taken to Northern Italy in 2002. Photos that have been sitting in an album on a shelf of my bookcase since then, are finally being transferred to my … Continue reading
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Tagged caffe biondi, Italy, montecatini terme, photography, The Sunday Traveler, travel
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The Sunday Traveler Looks Back~Italy, Part 1
April, 2002. Hotel Manzoni in Montecatini Terme was the destination of the Sunday Traveler (before she had even thought of being a Sunday Traveler), well, not destination but the lodging for a little over a week while on a tour … Continue reading
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Tagged hotel manzoni, Italy, montecatini terme, retrospective, The Sunday Traveler, travel
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