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8 Prizes: Bella Italy Giveaway

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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 have guest bloggers throughout the month and you will meet a lot of new voices.( The posts during the month will not ALL be about Italy–that might be just too much of a good thing.)

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Good Old Travel Literature Revisited

 

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 everywhere.  Continue reading Good Old Travel Literature Revisited