Viewing by month: June 2010
Fabulous new Lake Como hotel opens.
One of the great things about Lake Como
is that it’s changed so little since the 19th
century. The dreamy gardens and
romantic villas have a timeless quality that only adds to there appeal.
The fabled hotels and resorts on Lake Como have all been there for as
long as anyone could remember. Until now.
The first new hotel on
Lake Como in a century, Casta Diva Resort, is now open in Blevia, near
the town of Como. The 18th-century villa was once the home of opera
singer Giuditta Pasta,
and Bellini composed Norma and La Sonnambula for her while he was here.
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Travel bag packing hint.
Here’s one of our favorite packing tips. We learned it from a former flight attendant who’d
been everywhere. Wear disposable clothes on your next long-haul flight.
If you’re like us, by the time you get off a twelve-hour plane
ride, you want to burn the clothes you’re wearing. Not only do you
never to wear those clothes again, you don’t even
want to put them back in your travel bag.
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Tips for traveling on French trains.
Our recent experience with French trains was mixed. We traveled from Gare de Lyon in Paris to
Avignon in first class and everything was great. But the return trip
in 2nd class was really stressful.
Since we were visiting the
Riviera during the Cannes
Film Festival, we made reservations and purchased our tickets
about six weeks in
advance. By then, many of the least expensive advance-purchase fares
for the TGV were already sold out.
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