When Americans visit Italy we tend to stay to the time-tested hot-spots — Rome, Florence, Milan, Amalfi Coast, Venice. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll branch out and visit the Cinque Terre or take a guided tour of a vineyard in Tuscany. When I mentioned to friends that we were going to visit Puglia, they looked at me like I was crazy. Why there, they asked? This is why…
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I’m sure you’ve read those lists of the world’s top this or that and asked yourself, like I have, “Who the heck picked that?”. It’s like listening to a commercial that claims to have an award-winning product. Don’t you ever wonder what award it actually won?
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The sea draws me in like nectar to a bee, like a shot of whiskey to a merchant marine, like … home to the homesick. We all have places that we’d like to visit and Newport, Rhode Island is one of those for me. Maybe it’s the romance of the seafarer life. Maybe it’s that I just like to explore new places. I was just hoping that coming here wasn’t going be a big letdown.
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People travel for a variety of reasons — relaxation, education, adventure, work (yuck!) to name a few. I always thought that I would travel when I got old and retired. Wrong. I once met an 80-year old British woman at the top of the Acropolis. Who’s to say that I’ll be physically able to do that? Will you? I travel because I have a burning desire to experience new things, see new places, eat new foods. I travel because the sea turtles of Akumal, the Rock of Gibraltar, the vineyards of Tuscany, the castles of Germany won’t come to me. I travel because life’s too short not to.
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