Casual Ruins
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On our honeymoon, I took a variety of used paperbacks that I left in the libraries of our hotels and other spaces. Ten years later, I have fully joined the ebook space, thanks to the friends who forced a used Kindle on me a few birthdays back — and finally getting approved for NetGalleys, so
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12-16 May 2024 Much like how we can’t stay anywhere other than Hotel Oceania in Rome and we can’t not go to Siena, for Florence, it’s all about Fiesole and the Pensione Bencista. Nestled in the hills above the big city, Bencistà dates to the 14th century and, just before we were there, was even
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9-12 May 2024 Five hours on a bus later and we’re back in one of our favorite places in the world, Siena. On our honeymoon, Hampton found a wine tour out of Florence that stopped there for dinner and used that as half our transportation to Rome. We loved this quiet, medieval city so much,
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6-9 May 2024 From Rome, we headed to Naples, which was new to us. I hadn’t made too many decisions about what to do there, but really wanted to see the Egg Castle for sunset and then get a seafood dinner nearby. Well, it turns out our hotel had a birdseye view of the castle…
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3-6 May 2025 For our 10th anniversary, Hampton and I decided to break out of our COVID rut and Travel again. Travel with a capital T. See All The Things. …of course, we were soon totally overwhelmed with planning. Enter Adam’s Travel Designs. We had never used a travel agent before but given how out
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