Italy

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 August 26th, 2010

Destination: Italy GIVEAWAY at My Melange Robin, over at My Melange, a blog about Italy and France, is giving away some of the same books that I’ll be giving away here at A Traveler’s Library. But her Giveaway ends this month. So scurry on over to My Melange for a chance to win 100 Places [...]

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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 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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Destination: Italy Author: David Farley Books: An Irreverent Curiosity by David Farley The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones Pagan Holiday by Tony Perrottet I talked with David Farley a couple of weeks ago about his book, An Irreverent Curiosity which is released today. The book revolves around his time living in a small [...]

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