Friuli-Venezia Giulia Vacations, Friuli-Venezia Giulia Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

We started the day with a nice breakfast on a terrace in the town centre. It would have been a waste not to try a coffee in Italy... I still don't like coffee, even Latte coffee! I climbed up to the Cathedral (via Della Cattedrale, nice way). From there, there is a nice view of Trieste. I could not find the way to the castle, so I went back to the town centre by “il Teatro Romano”. All those monuments were quite impressive, not really because of the beauty, more because of the history th...

  TRIESTE & JAMES JOYCE   Trieste, once the principal port of the Habsburg Empire, is now capital of the Italian Friuli Venezia Giulia region. It has a population of around 240,000 and is situated in the northeast of Italy, just two hours from Venice and an hour and a half from the Slovenian capital of Lubljana.   James Joyce spent almost 11 years in this beautiful cosmopolitan Adriatic city between 1904 and 1920. Although day-to-day life was hard, it was here that the...

“English is not my native language” I answered when I was asked about how many languages I can speak.   Traveling is the moment that a simple question generates a chain reaction.   “ You have been here before?” the reception lady start to ask…” I love to speak several languages, do you speak Spanish? I love Spanish.” And suddenly a story in spanish how she learned Spanish during her summer work at Canarias where she met her 6 month boyfriend that played piano, all...

Today 30th April it is Queen’s day in the Netherlands, but we’re off to Italy! My first visit to Italy. We booked this trip with a local tourist agency. My biggest fear was that they took us to Italy and then said goodbye. Luckly they brought us back save and sound to our hotel in Croatia. First we visited a church in Triëst (Italy). After that, we had 2 hours to discover Triëst. I never knew but Italy has a lot of strange lavatories. They look like a shower, just a hole in the ground. ...