Category: Europe

Product of the Week: Greece Culture Smart Travel Guidebook

June 24th, 2007 by Jenn

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I have found a really great series of books on Amazon which are all guidebooks to places all over the world, but instead of just describing to you the best places to go when you get there, it also describes cultural differences as well as etiquette for a particular place. If you are inspired as I am to go to Greece someday, you should check out this book!
Greece - Culture Smart!: a quick guide to customs and etiquette (Culture Smart!)
I would be curious to hear from Mel of Mel’s Diner or any other ex-pats living in Greece or any Greek ex-pats living in the US on cultural differences between the United States and Greece. That would be an interesting topic of discussion!

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London to Sicily and Back Again

April 10th, 2007 by Jenn

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Photos by Michelle DiPiazza and Luke Sawh

Check out this trip of a lifetime. Arrive in London, travel by motorcycle around London through the Midlands up to Newcastle, back to London. Then hop a plane to Naples and explore Southern Italy and the Islands by train, ferry and foot. This is the trip my cousin Michelle and her boyfriend Luke took this past summer and it was amazing! Luke is originally from England and our family finds its roots in Southern Italy and Sicily. So it was a “going home” adventure for both of them – one they will remember for a lifetime. Continue Reading »

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Beautiful Barcelona

November 24th, 2006 by Jenn

By: KARI

Barcelona City Council presents the city this way on their official website: “Mediterranean. Two thousand years of history. Open to every innovation. Welcoming, plural, diverse. A city to live and share”
This may all be true, but the most striking feature of Barcelona is left out: The beauty of it!
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