pen4hire on September 3rd, 2010

REMINDER: Bella Italy Giveaway continues through September. When you leave a comment on any post during the month of September your name will be put in the capello for the drawing. You may win one of eight great prizes. Now read on for another great guest post. This time Kerry Dexter of Music Road finds [...]

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pen4hire on August 30th, 2010

We have a GREAT Bella Italia Giveaway coming up.  All you have to do is comment starting today and all during the month of September, and when I return from France I will round up your comments, run them through random.org and declare 8 winners. It will be particularly fun for you because I will [...]

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pen4hire on August 30th, 2010

Destination: Rome, Italy Book: The Last Judgment: Michelangelo and the Death of the Renaissance by James A. Connor (NEW Paperback Edition August, 2010 from Palgrave MacMillan) Like Michelangelo and The Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King, this book concentrates on one major work of the maestro. Unlike King’s book, The Last Judgment by James A. (Jim) [...]

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pen4hire on July 12th, 2010

Destination: Italy Book: 100 Places In Italy Every Woman Should Go, by Susan Van Allen (NEW 2010) Traveler’s Tales, the publisher, offered me this book and I do love Italy, and Indie Travel Podcast said they would like a review, so I read it–I mean really read it, because it was so well written and [...]

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pen4hire on June 28th, 2010

Place: Calabria, Italy Book: Old Calabria by Norman Douglas (NEW Reissued–2010) I love to time travel with writers from the 19th or early 20th centuries and even earlier.  I enjoy seeing a place and its people brought to life in an era before antennas sprouted on top of every mud hut and CNN images reached [...]

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pen4hire on April 12th, 2010

Destination: Europe Book: A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain A GUEST POST by Mark Heers Today a passionate Australian traveler shares his favorite travel literature. We are honoring Mark Twain all year, on the 100th anniversary of his death, and 175th anniversary of his birth.

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pen4hire on March 5th, 2010

Destination: Italy See the entire video here, and read more about Italy……

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pen4hire on November 12th, 2009

Today, we have a guest article from the web site Dream of Italy. Thanks to owner of the site, Kathy McCabe, and author of this article, Michael Lowe. The Twilight Movie New Moon releases November 20. Destination: Volterra, Italy Movie: New Moon

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pen4hire on July 29th, 2009

Destination: Greece Book: A Crowded Heart by Nicholas Papandreou Anyone who is tuned in to Greek politics in the past fifty years, has heard the name Papandreou.  Son Nicholas, who started as an economist, left the “family business” to become a writer and share his short stories and poetry with the world.  His novel, A [...]

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