“It is fate that I am here, persisted George, “but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”
— E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
Welcome! This is an online travel journal for my Summer 2008 trip to Italy, which covers the following destinations:
- Rome
- Florence
- Lucca
- Pisa
- Siena
- Venice
- Murano
- Burano
- Torcello
Also, you should know that while I’ve embedded some photographs into the entries, many more from my trip are available on Flickr, and travelogues for all of my previous trips to Europe are also available from the navigation menu, including those from Italy in 2010 and 2013.
Enjoy!
DLG
The Independent Traveler 
I stumbled onto your blog via TripAdvisor.com. What a wonderful find!! DH and I are traveling to Italy in September for our first trip there. I can’t wait to read about your adventures.
Gracie tanto!
A Virginia Traveler
Such a great website! As I’m reading about your aventures I almost feel as though I am there making the same journey! You’re pictures are incredible- so much so that I intend on buying the camera you used in hopes that my first trip abroad will be captured as beautifully as your trips have been. Here’s hoping!
Anyway, I posted a link to this blog on my website, I hope that is ok. I wanted to share the good word.
I look forward to seeing where you set off to next!