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🌎 Roaming around italy and the inside dope on Menorca
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This issue of our newsletter brought to you by REI Co-op Hello Reader, 🧭 Where in the World? It's been several years since we’ve been to Italy, and so it seems both familiar and new. We arranged guides for the essential sights such as Ancient Rome's Pantheon and the Theater of Marcellus, and for the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and Saint Peter’s Basilica. While we've seen all that before, our Context Travel guides managed to show us things in a new light with new insights. We think the food in Rome has improved, and we enjoyed staying in the Aventine Hill neighborhood. Of course, most of Rome doesn’t change. The one change we do notice though is, even in late October, the crowds are formidable…if that’s the right word. To put some actual numbers to it, our Vatican guide told us that ten years ago the average daily number of visitors to the Sistine Chapel was around 5,000. Now, the average is closer to 30,000 per day. 🧳 Our Latest Posts Kris circled back to her visit to Menorca, in Spain's beautiful Balearic Islands, to write up the details of her stay. She found lots of art and nature and historic sites, so is encouraging everyone she runs into to consider a trip there. Maybe we'll return for a walk around the famous Cami de Cavalls trail that circles the island. She assures me it's not crowded. 🗞️ Travel News From Around the Web
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📖 What We're ReadingWe've been so busy traveling, and writing up our last trips, we haven't had as much time as usual for reading. When you get back from traipsing around Rome, and having a glass or two of wine with dinner, you mostly feel like going to bed. Nevertheless, Tom is currently reading The Stones of Florence, a travelog from the 1950s by Mary McCarthy. Beautiful writing, and as I said above, Italy doesn't change all that much. It's actually funny that she mentions over tourism, even 70 years ago. ❝Travel Quote of the Week❞Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. – George Bernard Shaw Happy travels, Kris and Tom
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