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Visiting the Colosseum & Ancient Rome with LivItaly Tours

November 13, 2016 by Nat & Tim 20 Comments

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LivItaly Tours When I booked a tour with LivItaly Tours, I didn’t realize it was the morning after we would be attending a birthday party for our good friend Linda from the Beehive. We decided we would walk across town to and from the party on a barge on the Tiber. Getting back to our […]

Filed Under: #VaBene, Europe, Lazio, Rome, Tourism, travel Tagged With: #VaBene, Ancient Rome, Colosseum, Europe. city tours, italy, Lazio, LivItaly, rome, travel

Movember: men’s health month

November 9, 2016 by Nat & Tim 5 Comments

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A lifetime ago It seems like a lifetime ago since I have written something about what we are actually doing with ourselves. The truth is pretty simple and by normal standards quite boring. As we have said before, we travel on our own terms which usually means on our own dime and it takes a […]

Filed Under: #foodtourism, #VaBene, Europe, florence, food, fresh pasta, Italy, Lazio, Orvieto, pasta making, recipe, recipes, Rome, Tourism, travel, Tuscany, Umbria, wine Tagged With: aosta, bologna, emilia reggio, emilia-romagna, europe, florence, Lazio, men, movember, Orvieto, prostate, prostate health, rome, torino, trentino, trento, trieste, turin, tuscany, Umbria, venezia, venice, verona

48 Hours in Rome

April 10, 2015 by Nat & Tim 26 Comments

48 hours in rome

Rome, you can love it or hate it but you can never call boring. We partnered up with Expedia Canada to highlight some of the great food spots we recently discovered in this bustling city. We opted to hang out near Termini and the funky neighbourhood of Monti, rather than the better known areas near […]

Filed Under: food, Italy, Lazio, Rome, Tourism Tagged With: Europe. Monti, Forno della Soffitta, Grezzo, italy, rome, Termini

The Warm Sun Of Rome

May 28, 2012 by Nat & Tim 3 Comments

The Beehive A cab, a shuttle, a ferry, two trains and a couple of flights eventually landed us in the warm sun of Rome. We reset our watches and quickly tried to forget that we had been up for 27 hours, riding the buzz of being back in Italy. A quick walk about the neighborhood […]

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