
Insight Vacations Italian Escapade – Day 2: Rome with Local Historian WJ Tested: Insight Vacations Italian Escapade 12-Night Motor Coach Tour – Included Tour of Rome with Local Historian The first morning of our Insight Vacations Italian Escapade tour started at the Hotel Kolbe Rome. Although Tour Director Mark had arranged for a 7:00 am […]

WJ Tested: Insight Vacations – Day 1: Meet and Greet in Rome, Italy Insight Vacations Italian Escapade 12-Night Motor Coach Tour – Our Italian Adventure Begins in Rome! After flying out of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the early hours of the morning and spending a few hours waiting in Copenhagen’s fabulous airport for our onward […]

Living La Dolca Vita on Insight Vacations Italian Escapade Tour WJ Tested: Insight Vacations Italian Escapade Tour Review The phrase La Dolce Vita, Italian for the sweet life, was popularized by Federico Fellini with his legendary movie from 1960. We had a thirst to discover La Dolce Vita for ourselves and knew it would take […]

Viv & Jill’s Holland America Line Nieuw Amsterdam Cruise: Day 10 Rome, Italy 12-Night Mediterranean Romance Cruise June 3-15, 2011 Day 10 – June 12: Rome, Italy Docking in the port of Civitavecchia before 7 am, we made a quick exit from the ship and took one of the first free shuttle buses to the […]

Viv & Jill’s Holland America Line Nieuw Amsterdam Cruise: Day 9 Naples, Italy 12-Night Mediterranean Romance Cruise June 3-15, 2011 Day 9 – June 11: Naples, Italy After sailing overnight from Catania, Sicily, Nieuw Amsterdam arrived in Naples just before 8 am. As we had visited Naples on the last Mediterranean cruise we took a […]

Viv & Jill’s Holland America Line Nieuw Amsterdam Cruise: Day 8 Catania, Sicily 12-Night Mediterranean Romance Cruise June 3-15, 2011 Day 8 – June 10: Catania on Sicily, Italy The Nieuw Amsterdam arrived and docked in Catania (second largest city in Sicily and tenth largest in Italy) before we were awake. Again, we had to […]

Hiking Italy’s Cinque Terre By Stacey Wallace A crisp early morning in the middle of the European summer, and I am sitting on an east-bound train weaving along the jagged coast of the Italian Riviera. I sit transfixed as I watch the yellow sun peak over the horizon, lighting up the infinite stretch of water […]