A girl hides, quietly hoping the leaning tower doesn’t find her.
(Or, perhaps I misinterpreted this scene. Can you give it a better caption?)
Photos Help Tell the Story
Wrapping up a great trip, a few photos add to the story. Note also a number of photos added to entries over the last two months.
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Travelers enjoying tapas and their guidebook. When blitzing tapas bars in Madrid’s best neighborhoods, it’s fun to find happy travelers putting their guidebook to good use. |
An amazing painting in Cortona. |
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, I open the shutters and greet a new day in Volterra. In a week I meet the TV crew… |
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Dottore Vincenzo Riolo in Pisa taught me volumes about his town and is one of many excellent new local guides I met and will recommend in my guidebooks. |
Why call it tourist season if we can’t shoot them? A scary welcome in Florence’s Oltrarno district. |
Station of the Cross, padded for protection, along the route of a bike race in Slovenia. |
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Happy road trippers with favorite guidebooks in Slovenia. |
Cheap and delicious picnic, relaxing in my Zagreb hotel room. |
Cameron Hewitt (co-author of our Croatia & Slovenia guidebook) reads about himself, me, and our American film crew in a Zagreb newspaper. I guess an American film crew in Zagreb is newsworthy. |
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Croatian B&B hosts—clicking with new friends in Korcula. |
Day #70…Trip over, one last beer to enjoy a Dubrovnik vista and celebrate a smooth and productive trip before flying home. |