For the hardworking among us, there’s a chance to go on a holiday like no other! Here are just some of the beautiful places you will visit when you join the Eat, Pray and Love in Europe Tour: Eat in Lyon – Lyons has long held the title of “capital of gastronomy.” Everywhere you turn, there […]
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Destinations | Europe | France | Pinaytraveller | Portugal | Spain
Eat, Pray and Love Tour in Europe
By PinayTraveller on November 17, 2012Over the past few years, I’ve been very lucky to have had the opportunity to travel around Western Europe, particularly France, Spain and Portugal. Every time I’d come back from these trips, I would always feel rejuvenated, as if I’m ready to take on the world again. As you know, I would always write […]
Food and Culture | Italy
Widespread Cuteness in the Streets of Rome
By PinayTraveller on November 2, 2012Italians love their cars, especially the luxe kind. But it is not the Alfa Romeos, Maseratis, Lamborghinis or the Ferraris that make my heart skip a beat. In Rome, mini cars rule! You’ll see them everywhere… zipping by the narrow cobble stoned streets like bumblebees on streroids… Shoved Parked in slots that could only […]
Destinations | Europe | Footnote | Italy
Footnote: Underneath St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome
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One of the air vents for the crypt in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, 2012. “There are over 100 tombs within St. Peter’s Basilica (extant to various extents), many located in the Vatican grotto, beneath the Basilica. These include 91 popes, St. Ignatius of Antioch, Holy Roman Emperor Otto II, and the composer Giovanni Pierluigi da […]
Europe | Italy | Photography | Spiritual Travel
One Fine Day in Rome
By PinayTraveller on October 27, 2012We almost didn’t make it, my team and I. We received our Schengen Visa just two days before our scheduled flight, and our plane tickets mere hours before takeoff. Everything, it seemed, was against our going to Rome to cover the historic canonization of the country’s second saint, San Pedro Calungsod. But with his intercession, […]