The Rick Steves of Frascati, Italy Day Trips

So, a while ago, I wrote this post about how Frascati is a great day trip from Rome, and specifically how you should go there to eat roasted pork in a cantina, and even more specifically, Osteria dell’Olmo. Well, y’all are an obedient lot – because you’ve been going there in droves.

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Mid-Week Links and Randomness

Go look at Patricia McClung’s photo collages from around the world (menu on left side). They’re stunning. Sean Keener of BootsnAll and I have started dealing crack to travel addicts in the form of Travel News Daily. Bookmark it now: Have you ever had a dessert placed in front of you after a great meal, [...]

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The Savage Lushness of Rome

Rome, for all of its dusty antiquity, has some notable green spaces. And the farther out you go from the city center – but not too far, just outside the walls, really – the more untamed, lush and ubiquitous the greenery is. Today, I’d like to attempt to describe this to you, although I fear [...]

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