Bagni di Lucca and Beyond Blog
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My blog covers all my travels, mostly on Italy. I am Australian and I usually spend 6 months each year in Italy. Travel has been a bit restricted over the past year, but I have talked about lockdown, my Tuscan garden and the occasional trip I have managed for fit in. There will be lots more travel,stories soon.
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1w ago
Burford is one of the gorgeous towns my excellent friend and guide, Anup, took me to on my recent visit to England. Burford is on the River Windrush in West Oxfordshire. It is 29 kilometres from Oxford, where I was staying. The town began in the middle Saxon period with the founding of a village ..read more
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3w ago
While I was staying in London I visited the Fashion and Textile Museum. It is in Bermondsey, just around the corner from where I was staying. The Museum was founded in 2003 by Zandra Rhodes and is operated by the Newham College of Further Education. The current exhibition, which continues until September 2024, is The ..read more
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1M ago
I fell in love with English gardens on my recent visit. I was in Oxford, Cambridge, a few towns in the Cotswolds and London and everywhere I spotted the most glorious gardens filled with gorgeous flowers. Here are a few. mmmm ..read more
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1M ago
Word on the Water is a delightful bookshop on a barge that it resides on Regent’s Canal in the King’s Cross area at Granary Square in London. It has appeared in numerous publication’s lists of best bookshops in the UK. The bookshop’s home is a Dutch canal boat called Dianti dating back to the 1920s ..read more
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1M ago
I have loved my days in London! My delightful friend and guide, Anup, took me out walking every day. We averaged 12-15 kilometres every day, so we covered quite a bit of territory. Anup’s apartment is very close to Tower Bridge so we walked past it, crossed it and admired it every day. The ..read more
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1M ago
Broadway Tower is the highest tower in the Cotswolds. The ‘Saxon’ tower was the brainchild of Capability Brown and designed by James Wyatt in 1794. It was a folly, built for Barbara, Countess of Coventry. The tower is built of limestone and is 3 stories high, with 3 round corner turrets and battlements. It sits ..read more
Bagni di Lucca and Beyond Blog
2M ago
Broadway is often referred to as the ‘Jewel of the Cotswolds’. This becomes obvious within minutes of arriving in the town, it is gorgeous. The village lies beneath Fish Hill on the western Cotswold escarpment, in the county of Worcestershire and close to the border of Gloucestershire. The High Street is lined with horse chestnut trees ..read more
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2M ago
Marlow is a town located on the River Thames in Buckinghamshire in England. I was delighted to stay with friends in this pretty town. It is a charming Georgian market town with historic streets lined with beautiful houses, gardens, boutique shops, restaurants and cafes…come for a walk through Marlow. The town’s most famous landmark is ..read more
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2M ago
Peccioli has been named Il Borgo dei Borghi, the Village of Villages for 2024. For the past 11 years Rai, Italy’s state owned TV station, has held a competition to help raise the visibility of small Italian towns that might otherwise go unnoticed. A village is nominated from each of Italy’s 20 regions. Residents send videos ..read more
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3M ago
From the Heart to the Hands:Dolce & Gabbana is the incredible exhibition celebrating the artistic and creative legacy of Domenica Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. It began on 7th April and will continue at the Palazzo Reale in Milan until 31st July. Each room is an overload of design delights, a walk through the tapestry of ..read more