New Travel Highlights on Afar
Check out my new travel "Highlights" on Afar.com: a prosciutto festival in Sauris and Muggia's disgruntled winged lion of Saint Mark.
Check out my new travel "Highlights" on Afar.com: a prosciutto festival in Sauris and Muggia's disgruntled winged lion of Saint Mark.
Having taken the train from Trieste back to Udine and dropped our bags off at Hotel Principe, Mike and I set out for our very first Italian rental car adventure.…
Early the next morning, Mike and I took a boat to Muggia, located just south of Trieste near the Slovenian border. My previous visits to Muggia had been in February,…
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Check out my new travel "Highlights" on Afar.com: a mountaintop malga and a beach of golden sand.
After a couple slices of putizza—a spiral cake filled with chocolate, dried fruit, and nuts that we had purchased at Pasticceria Penso the day before—Mike and I headed out to…
By the next morning, the sun had returned, although there was a bit of a chill in the air. We began the day with more pastries at Pasticceria Penso: a…
Check out my new travel "Highlights" on Afar.com: Europe's largest seafront square and a festival of wild berries.
It’s time to introduce my husband, Mike. Although we were not yet married at the time of this trip, we had been dating for about seven years. Mike had joined…
The first time I visited Gorizia, it was a bitterly cold February morning, the sky overcast and gloomy with the threat of impending snow. Now that it was May, conditions…