Category Archives: Slow Travel Benefits

Photographing the Val d’ Orcia in Tuscany — the Valley of Iconic Images

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Jim and Magrit Baurecht Nilsen

We have just completed our third 9-day photo tour in Tuscany with shooting the “blue hour” just after sunset in Pisa. The “Field of Miracles” with the Duomo, the Babtisterium and, of course, the Leaning Tower is even more magnificent … Continue reading →

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When is a Barge not a Barge?

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Alasdair and Barbara Wyllie

  Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States of America, was, before his Presidency,  Ambassador to France.  It was while he held this position, in 1784, that he took a journey on a barge working on the Canal … Continue reading →

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Italy is a Sensory Experience

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Bill Steiner

The deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie is quoted by Mark Nepo in Seven Thousand Ways to Listen as saying that, since she can’t hear, she feels  vibrations, saying they are one and the same. She points out that in Italian the … Continue reading →

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