Italy Travel Journal

I didn’t keep a count, but at the time I wrote this category description, I probably spent more time in Italy than in any other country apart from Canada (my home) and the United States. And I’m not sure about the United States.

A lot of those days were part of trips that I took before starting this travel journal, so you won’t find descriptions of them here. Nevertheless, this category does hold a number of journal entries.

The Italy category is a subcategory of my “Europe” category. In turn, this country category has subcategories for the cities and towns I visited in the country. If I took a day trip to another city or town, I usually include that only in the subcategory for the city or town where I started and ended the day, not the target of the day trip. Sorry about that.

Then again, I’m not the most consistent person in the world. I might break that rule a few times. If this displeases you, you should definitely demand a refund.

Herculaneum (Ercolano)

If there’s one sight near Naples that everyone knows about it’s Pompeii. It’s so important that you can’t spell Pompeii without two “I”s. I think...

2 Castles & 2 Bonuses

The plan I formulated at lunch for this afternoon was to have a castle theme. My plan called for visiting two castles, the Castel Nuovo...

Naples (Napoli) Began with Pizza

The title of this post notwithstanding, I don’t imagine pizza was responsible for the founding of Naples (Napoli in Italian). But I took the high-speed...

Victor Emmanuel and 3 Churches

The Victor Emmanuel Monument wasn’t in my original thinking for this afternoon. My tentative plan was to visit two or possibly three churches and then...

5 Churches and some Forums

When I left the Capitoline Museums after lunch the steady rain of the morning turned to intermittent rain in the afternoon. But it was still...