TravBuddy.com: fawkes66's Italy, 2005 travel blog Copyright 2005 TravBuddy LLC http://www.travbuddy.com/blogs/18462 Trip to Italy by car. Places we visited: Plailly, Versailles, Genève, Sirmione, Venice, Luzern. en-us Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:43:19 PST Metropole Hotel Venice http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/18462/Venice-Italy-5 Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:43:19 PST Metropole Hotel Venice Venice, Italy, Jul 11, 2005

Hotel Metropole was a treasure to us. The hotel claims Vivaldi lived here from 1704 to 1738. Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann allegedly...

]]> Broglia Hotel Sirmione http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/18462/Sirmione-Italy-4 Sun, 10 Jul 2005 02:47:05 PST Broglia Hotel Sirmione Sirmione, Italy, Jul 10, 2005

Sirmione is located on a small peninsula that separates the nothern part of Lake Garda, in the province of Brescia (Lombardy). Hotel Broglia has...

]]> Bristol Hotel Geneva http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/18462/Geneva-Switzerland-3 Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:11:51 PST Bristol Hotel Geneva Geneva, Switzerland, Jul 09, 2005

We visited Geneva only for a one night stopover. Driving and searching for a place you don´t know is never advisable. Specially when you arrive at...

]]> Versailles http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/18462/Versailles-France-2 Fri, 08 Jul 2005 02:42:35 PST Versailles Versailles, France, Jul 08, 2005

Versailles was only a country village when the chateau was built in 1624, nowadays it is a suburb of Paris. King Louis XIV moved the Royal Court to...

]]> Parc Asterix http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/18462/Plailly-France-1 Thu, 07 Jul 2005 02:41:38 PST Parc Asterix Plailly, France, Jul 07, 2005

Parc Asterix was a nice stopover for our trip to Italy. It´s the home of Asterix and Obelix, you know, the characters created by Goscinny en Uderz...

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