Entries Tagged as ‘Italy’

August 30, 2006

Walking in the Chianti

There are plenty of tour companies offering both guided and self guided walking tours of the Chianti area of Tuscany, but its not hard to cobble together your own itinerary with the aid of a good detailed map or a book like Lonely Planet’s Walking In Italy, or James Lasdun and Pia Davis’s Walking and [...]

August 26, 2006

Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria

The authors of this popular book (first published in 1997) have at long last released an updated edition. Actually it was released in 2005, after the authors revisited in 2004. We visited Italy ourselves in 2005 and walked two of the author’s routes. If only we had known that there was an updated edition! That [...]