Northern, Central and Southern Italy Travel Expert Round-Up

Moore n' more about People, Places and Things: Italy Travel Edition

Posted on: Nov 13, 2009

I have exciting news coming up in the next few weeks regarding My Bella Vita, Il Cedro and some new products and services that are tailor-made to southern Italy travelers. I’m excited-and I can’t wait to share. Another thing I couldn’t wait to tell you about is the overwhelming support I’ve had from friends in the blogosphere who are in the travel industry. They’ve sent me emails, brainstormed with me on Skype and offered their two centissimi that was worth much more than I could have paid them in sterling, euros or even that pitifully low dollar. And even with all of the encouragement they’ve been giving me, they are still busy as elves at Christmastime.

southern italy travel experts megan in liguria paris apartment blog post Moore n' more about People, Places and Things: Italy Travel Edition Photo: Haven in Paris

Megan of Bella Vita Italia recently crossed the border with her blog and wrote about a luxury apartment rental agency, Haven in Paris, that was opened by an American in 1993. Megan is also staying busy planning weddings and events in Italy and she and her husband just celebrated their wedding anniversary. Auguri!

In other Italy travel consulting news, Madeline of Italy: Beyond the Obvious recently published an article on ItalianKids.com. In her article, Madeline describes the best restaurants in Torino for tiny tots and divides them into categories based on outdoor scenery, local food, atmosphere and more. It was a great article. But, heck. Don’t take my word for it. Go read it yourself!

Speaking of reading-and cool things to do in Italy-Melanie of Italofile recently wrote a post about the top five things to do in Le Marche. She has also been busy building a social networking site for Italofiles at Italofile.Ning.com. Check it out-and tell her Cherrye sent you.

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Paula Russell from Paula’s Tour Talk and Time of Your Life Tours released the dates for their Spring and Fall 2010 Tuscan Treasures Tour. If you are interested in Tuscany-and come on, who isn’t?-then check out their website or Paula’s Tour Talk blog for more details. And I’m not the only one with changes a’coming. Paula recently announced some impending changes at her place, too.

Here is hoping the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010 bring great changes to all of my Italy travel and tourism buddies. In bocca al lupo!

Next week is my second wedding anniversary-which means we get to start celebrating this weekend. Since I’m in such a loving mood, I invite you to have a great weekend, too. Enjoy!

Gold price rises as miners stop hedging.

Australasian Business Intelligence January 1, 2003 Jan 01, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review – ABIX via COMTEX) Deutsche Bank says lack of gold price hedging is helping drive the rise in the world gold price to around five-year highs. The German-based bank says that while conventional wisdom cites an impending US-Iraqi war as the reason gold hovers around $US350 an ounce, another is that miners have stopped betting the price will fall. Deutsche says that historically, at such a high price, gold producers would have been actively hedging. In fact, very little new hedging is happening. Deutsche sees Lihir Gold and Newmont Mining as stocks that will continue appreciating on a continuing increase in the gold price. go to site gold price history go to website gold price history

Publication Date: 2 January 2003

DEUTSCHE BANK AG:

LIHIR GOLD LIMITED – ASX LHG:

NEWMONT MINING CORPORATION – ASX NEM:

ANGLOGOLD LIMITED – ASX AGG:

GOLD FIELDS LIMITED:

HARMONY GOLD MINING COMPANY LIMITED:

SONS OF GWALIA LIMITED – ASX SGW:

BARRICK GOLD CORPORATION:

NEWCREST MINING LIMITED – ASX NCM:

NORMANDY MINING LIMITED By Stephen Wisenthal