TravBuddy.com: Chokk's Italy road trip in March 2005 travel blog Copyright 2005 TravBuddy LLC http://www.travbuddy.com/blogs/4024 Roadtrip again. This time I wanted to visit Toscana together with my son. I wanted to go to Italy before the start of the tourist season and this March turned out to be everything what I wished for in an early spring trip. en-us Sat, 26 Mar 2005 10:07:31 PST Hotel Colleoni Agrate Brianza http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/4024/Agrate-Brianza-Italy-14 Sat, 26 Mar 2005 10:07:31 PST Hotel Colleoni Agrate Brianza Agrate Brianza, Italy, Mar 26, 2005

Ordinary business hotel located in Agrate Brianza, which is some kilometres outside Milano but not that far from the Monza F1 circuit. The hotel …

]]> Ai Tufi Hotel Siena http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/4024/Siena-Italy-13 Fri, 25 Mar 2005 04:12:47 PST Ai Tufi Hotel Siena Siena, Italy, Mar 25, 2005

Driving around all day we ended up around 8pm in Siena looking for a hotel. All the first hotels we went to in the inner city turned up full! We aske…

]]> Pizzeria La Capannina http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/4024/Siena-Italy-13 Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:05:33 PST Pizzeria La Capannina Siena, Italy, Mar 25, 2005

We had been driving around all day we ended up around 8pm in Siena looking for a hotel. We ended up at Ai Tufi Hotel which turned out to be very nice…

]]> Arezzo http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/4024/Arezzo-12 Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:13:18 PST Arezzo Arezzo, Italy, Mar 24, 2005

Arezzo is an old city, capital of the province of the same name, located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about 80 km (50 miles) south-east of Florence, at an e…

]]> Driving around http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/4024/Driving-around-6 Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:00:01 PST Driving around Mensano, Italy, Mar 23, 2005

One of the better opportunities that you have when you are driving to Tuscany is to use your car in order to find some of the more hidden spots outsi…

]]> Florence http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/4024/Florence-5 Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:15:57 PST Florence Florence, Italy, Mar 22, 2005

I had never been in Florence and I had looked forward to this for very long. My son and I had booked a hotel just across the central station, not far…

]]> Getting to Baveno http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/4024/Getting-Baveno-4 Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:55:19 PST Getting to Baveno Baveno, Italy, Mar 21, 2005

Entering the Italian side you also meet the Italians - and I say this with a smile especially coming from the Swiss side where everything works. Here…

]]> Lucerne http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/4024/Lucerne-1 Sun, 20 Mar 2005 00:00:00 PST Lucerne Lucerne, Switzerland, Mar 20, 2005

Lucerne is a very beautiful city whatever you visit it in the summer or the vinter. It is the capital of the Canton of Lucerne and seat of the d…

]]> Mount Pilatus http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/4024/Mount-Pilatus-2 Sun, 20 Mar 2005 00:00:01 PST Mount Pilatus Alpnachstad, Switzerland, Mar 20, 2005

Southwest of Luzern you can see a giant mountain looming above - this is the very beautiful Mount Pilatus rising in total 2132m. …

]]> The way to Italy http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/4024/way-Italy-3 Sun, 20 Mar 2005 00:00:02 PST The way to Italy Andermatt, Switzerland, Mar 20, 2005

Driving from Luzern towards Bellinzona is a very beautiful stretch. As always when driving in Switzerland you are driving on perfect road a…

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