Italy

Pic: A gondolier in Venice The page is no longer blank. I wrote 1,402 words today towards Daphne’s Dream. I am enjoying the research involving Venice and Tuscany. Venice is a wonder of a city with its foundation of timbers under wood plankings and stone somehow still defying encroaching waters. […]

The page is no longer blank

 in Italy / Regency romance by
I think I am finally almost ready to tackle my Regency romance set in Italy. When I first started looking into this project, I messaged my husband: I can’t believe I combined 1) Regency adn 2) an English heroine visiting Italy in the early 1800s. As if writing Regency wasn’t […]

I think I am finally almost ready

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Can you say bucket list? Although in fairness, I didn’t know a gondola ride in Venice was on my bucket list until I went to Venice. Drew and I had the lovers’ seat, but we actually had two other ladies with us, Filipinas whom we met outside a building and […]

Italy Day 8 – Venice

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Ah, Venice. Drew and I arrived a little before two on a 90-minute ferry ride to San Marco, where our little hotel was located. Venice is only accessible by water. From the airport, one could either take the Alilaguna (the ferry we took), a water taxi for more euros, or a hired […]

Italy Day 7 – Venice

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A great start for the day. Another beautiful sunrise. This time, as if custom-ordered, with a hot air balloon even! I could hear the gas ebb and flow as it fed the large flame. The passengers all waved down at us. What a fun way to see the Tuscan countryside! […]

Italy Day 6 – Lake Garda

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The sun started to set just as we drove the last ten minutes to our lodging for the night near San Gimignano…at the same time that I was trying to help Drew navigate our car using Google Maps. The leaves on trees, grape vineyards and farm fields were starting to […]

Italy Day 4: Tuscany

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We were finally ready to catch the sunrise at 7:15, but we were just heading off to downtown in our Uber. I asked our driver if he spoke English. He said a little. “Spanish?” I said, hopeful. Affirmative. Turned out Alfonso was from Venezuela so he and I could at […]

Italy Day 3 – Rome

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