Tag Archives: Venice

Here’s a bucket list item for you!

Admiration, astonishment, envy, or just utter disbelief.  The quest just begun by Italian hiker and grandmother Vienna Cammarota might inspire any or all of these feelings. As reported in several news sources this week, Vienna Cammarota left Venice on Tuesday … Continue reading

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Mount Everest just the world’s latest victim of tourist hordes

Thought-provoking article by Kelly McParland in the National Post (May 29, 2019) follows in full, for starters. ‘Once, you travelled the world to see the world. Now, you travel to shoot the perfect selfie. It might seem odd to equate a … Continue reading

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Italy: our first non-camping package tour was a revelation

#9 on our 15 favourite trips list. I grew up in the burgeoning NY suburbs of the 50s, out on Long Island.  It wouldn’t have mattered what your ancestral culture might have been, in that part of the world at … Continue reading

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