The New York Times spends a weekend in Florence, and finds art, religion … and food.
Florence is just an hour and a half away from Rome on the Eurostar Italia, so if you’re looking to get away from the constant noise and traffic of Italy’s capital, it might be a good choice.
While you’re there, consider a day trip to Pisa.
Recent blog posts on Florence:
Love This City, is a travel blog from a girl named Dani, from Sydney, who plans to visit 26 countries in five months. If it’s May, it must be … Ireland!
The Independent lists its top five pod hotels.
What’s a pod hotel? Here’s a couple of examples: The Pod Hotel, Stay Orange.
The past two years has brought enormous change to Russia’s capital city. The New York Times takes a look at some of the changes.
“The city fathers have torn down the old Rossiya Hotel, a giant Brezhnev-era hulk that few will miss, and commissioned a new hotel and entertainment complex by the British architect Norman Foster. The Rossiya’s demise has opened the airspace around one of Moscow’s most historic places, Varvarka Street.”
The Independent has an article about the UK Youth Hostelling Association closing down a number of hostels in order to fund improvements to others.
Apparently more and more travellers, these days, want private en-suite facilities, It would be a shame, however, if the large bunk rooms and communal eating areas disappeared forever…
Ed Gillespie is attempting to travel around the world, without taking a flight. The latest installment of his story, printed in The Observer, has him entering Mongolia from Russia by train.
Budget Travel Online has a guide to finding unique hotels and alternative lodging.
The New York Times has a wonderful article on the historic city of Krakow, in Poland.
Thanks Julie!
The Irish Independent takes a look at Bremen, in Germany, and finds that there is more to the former Hanseatic city-state than just depressing weather.
Bremen can be reached by direct trains from Hamburg, Hannover, Zurich, Vienna, Munich, Paris and Brussels. For a less direct route, consider taking a train to Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands and then regional trains to Bremen, via Leer.
A brief guide to Milan, from The Age. So brief, in fact, that they do twenty-four hours in just eight and a half.
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