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When a friend wrote me on WhatsApp saying “when will you come visit me in Chartres?” I thought “why not?” and booked a low-cost flight from Pisa to Orly, an hour away from the French t...
I may be at my happiest when I am looking at Venetian art. Bellini rates amongst my favourites alongside Giorgione and Lorenzo Lotto (an odd combination, but I have my reasons). Having missed ...
I’ve always wanted to return to Japan, and even more so during cherry blossom season. Although this blog focuses on Italy and Europe, I asked my colleague Helen Farrell, Editor in Chief of T...
Not far from the center of MUNICH lays the densely built campus of BMW, where the large factory and head offices of the car manufacturer also feature a museum and brand experience space that a...
This is the second part of a long reflection on my trip to Iceland in April 2017. If you’d like, you can read part one here, where I think about how Iceland ended up with so many tourists, a...
A few years ago, an acquaintance on Facebook posted some really beautiful landscape photos from his trip to ICELAND and I was like, wow, let’s go there! Probably this has happened to you, to...
BARCELONA is one of my favourite European cities. Clean, organized and easy to get around, with a smorgasbord of art, architecture and design as well as fashion and food, it’s a city for aes...
One of the best things about LIVING IN ITALY – as well as the food, the weather, and just… living in Italy – is the proximity to so many places to visit. Where I grew up in Canada, a 4-h...
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Sunbathing on the beautiful beaches of the Costiera Amalfitana, discovering the Renaissance art masterpieces of Florence, enjoying a stroll through Crete’s tiny streets… whatever your drea...
People often ask me WHAT I MISS ABOUT MY NATIVE CANADA. Generally, I say “nothing”: I’m very satisfied with life in Italy, and lack only access to cheddar cheese and litres of good maple...
When BALTHASAR HAUSER started asking neighbouring farmers for their discarded wood back in the 1970s, people thought he was crazy. While they were constructing in cement and glass, Hauser spok...
On a recent trip to LONDON, I took a look at what tours Context Travel had on offer for my dates – as a blogger, I admit that they let me take as many of these tours as I want, and it’s so...
CANTERBURY. I immediately associate so many things with this place in England, though I don’t know much about any of them: the CANTERBURY TALES, Chaucer’s masterpiece of English literature...
We’re not particularly adventurous travelers, my husband Tommaso and I. The very thought of “breaking the rules” and leaving the airport when we’re checked in and waiting for our next ...
Pastrami is a 10 year old Golden Retriever who loves ART. Or so we’d like to imagine, based on the photos of Pastrami traveling around the world, posing in front of famous landmarks. Her own...
From Bauhaus to Futurism, BERLIN is heaven for lovers of modernist architecture. NATALIE HOLMES, Context Travel’s regional manager for Central Europe and a freelance writer who focuses on ar...
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Apollo, the ancient god of light, was born on the island of DELOS, smack dab in the middle of the Aegean Sea and equally distant from every shore of mainland Greece. You might say it’s in th...
Located on the southern edge of Attica region, CAPE SOUNIO (sometimes refered to as Sounion) is about a 65km-drive from the city of Athens. The idyllic area of Sounio is of great historical i...