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  • Gyaan from our travels in Italy

    Gyaan from our travels in Italy – Eating is the national past time in Italy (after football that is). Italians love good food and the trattorias serve great food made fresh. – The national foods of Italy are pasta, pizza, gelato. We also discovered something called a “Suppli”, a uniquely…

  • Tour of Naples and the ruins of Pompeii

    Tour of Naples and the ruins of Pompeii

    This is our 4th day in Rome. We have already been through three days of grueling, exhausting visits to all the exciting places that, this museum of a city, Rome offers. When we booked the tour, they told us we leave at 7.30 am. We thought that was early, but…

  • Travel to Florence and Pisa

    Travel to Florence and Pisa

    We arrived in Florence on Sunday at around 12.30 pm after a 2 hours train ride on Italo 9912 (Italo is a privately run train system, (Trenitalia is govt. run). The train ride up north was very comfortable, we were in coach and paid just 60 Euro for 4 of…

  • Travel to Warsaw, Poland

    Travel to Warsaw, Poland

    I am in Poland on a short business trip. I got here on Saturday and return to the US Tuesday. This is my first visit to country in Eastern Europe. I have captured below some of my observations and experiences. The flight from Newark to Warsaw was uneventful. LOT, the…