Reader Questions: A Day in Palermo

Posted on: Feb 15, 2011

Calabria Travel Reader Qs Reader Questions: A Day in Palermo

I kicked off my new Reader Question series last week by offering up some of my favorite “stopping points” for travelers passing through Calabria from Campania. Today, we are heading over to Italy’s biggest island for a set of questions about its capital city.

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Southern Italy Snapshots: Sicily

Posted on: Jan 27, 2011

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A couple of weeks ago we kicked off our Southern Italy Snapshots series with five beautiful Flickr pictures of Calabria. Today, we are heading 10 kilometers off of the mainland to the world-famous island … Sicily.

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Travel Tip Tuesday: Five Mistakes Travelers Make in the Mezzogiorno

Posted on: Jan 11, 2011

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My husband and I have spent the last four years in the Southern Italy tourism industry and we’ve learned a lot in that time. Between the guests we host at our Calabrian bed and breakfast and the clients we help through our travel consulting business, we’ve seen travelers on every end of the spectrum … from open, generous and kind to well, uhm, uhm … stressed.

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