Posts Tagged ‘HomeAway holiday rentals’
May 19, 2010
By Lisa T. Bergren
Our arrival into Rome is less than auspicious. Everything takes longer than expected or proves impossible; the rental car, the Friday night traffic, the phone with international access, the directions to the inn, the GPS. By the time we roll up in front of Locanda Rosati, we are stressed, bickering and exhausted. Continue reading
In Italy, Trip Reports, Umbria
Tags: B&B, food, Grantourismo, HomeAway holiday rentals, inn, Locanda Rosati, Umbria
Mar 28, 2010
View on a Venetian Neighborhood
A Different Kind of CanalBy Lisa T. Bergren
In Venice, ancient city of mariners and merchants, we rented a second floor apartment facing Via Giuseppe Garibaldi. This wide avenue, once a waterway, now a canal of stone and cement, swirls with grandmothers pushing children too old to be in umbrella strollers (but in them anyway), schoolchildren, businesspeople. Here, the tolling bell of a neighborhood church awakens us each morning, calling parishioners to mass. We hear the creaks and groans of shutters pushed aside, the metallic grate of gates opened in front of tiny shops and markets and bars. Continue reading
