Links for you to Explore Links for you to Explore Links for you to Explore Links for you to Explore Links for you to Slow food is well worth supporting: www.slowfood.it Things about & on Rome: www.romapreview.com & www.romaturismo.it The tourist agency in Florence sometimes is on the ball: www.firenze.turismo.toscana.it Good country accommodation in Tuscany just adds to the dream: www.agriturismo.regione.toscana.it Borghese Museum & Gallery is high on most people's list: www.ticketeria.it tel bookings: 06328101 The Touring Club Italiano might be worth a look - in Italian of course! www.touringclub.it The Herald Tribune boasts the definitive web site on Italy at: www.italydaily.it you can be the judge? I think a good travel site that covers the world for hotel bookings, best rates, travel packages and airline tickets can be found at: www.tripadvisor.com it's a shame that the site does not include more photographs of the hotels it advertises. Finding good holiday information, easily on the web, can be a bit of a struggle. So much information can be overwhelming! Word of mouth is still a good way to gather information, particularly amongst friends. Good travel agents still have an important role to play and can make travel arrangements easy for you to achieve. You might find what you are looking for at the Institute of Certified Travel Counselors (ICTA) at www.icta.com You can link on to Find a Travel Professional at that site which might be the beginning of a great holiday! Traveling to Europe, and not just Italy, opens up to us all some of the great museum's and art collections of the world. Below I've included some web sites of Europe's most important museum's. It's a joy just to see images of their collections! The British Museum: www.british-museum.ac.uk Rijksmuseum, Netherlands: www.rijksmuseum Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris: www.paris.fr/musees/mamvp Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany: www.kunsthalle-bielefeld.de It would be amiss of me not to mention the indefatigable Pauline Kenny, who works so hard on maintaing a wonderful web site: www.slowtrav.com There is lots there to discover, with an excellent section on things Italian! next page return to main page