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Best bike movies for inspiration
I’ll never forget the first time I watched Breaking Away. Everything about the film mesmerized and charmed me. The fake Italian identity. The friendship among the Dave, Mike, Cyril, and Moocher. The ambition. The catastrophic pump in the spokes. The… Read full article
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Travel Books To Dream With
With the seasons changing, and this year keeping most of us home bound, it seems like the best antidote to the travel bug might be to hunker down with a book and get lost in the stories of others’ travels. … Read full article
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Book Review: Italianità – The Essence of Being Italian and Italian-American
ExperiencePlus! founder Rick Price reviews a book written by one of our travelers! Take a look at Rick’s review of William Giovinazzo’s book, Italianità – The Essence of Being Italian and Italian-American. OK, I don’t really qualify as Italian-American even… Read full article
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My Two Italies by Joseph Luzzi
Stories of immigrants fascinate me, especially the life stories of Italians who have come to “l’America”, both North and South, since the 1700s. In each of these stories I see elements of my own story, that of leaving my birthplace… Read full article
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My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes
“My Italian Secret: the Forgotten Heroes,” written, produced and directed by Oren Jacoby, 2014. Now available on Netflix.com. It seems that we will never know the full story of the Holocaust. Every new book, movie, or eyewitness account sheds new… Read full article
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Movie Review: Walking the Camino – Six Ways To Santiago
Geography, history, spirituality, people, adventure. These are just a few of the puzzle pieces that come together to form the “camino experience” for anyone traveling the Camino de Santiago en route to Santiago de Compostela. These also happen to be perfect subjects for a compelling story… Read full article
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The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Dive into this deliciously dark tale about passion, love, loss and life and follow David Martín, the main character, through Barcelona’s murky alleys and wide avenues. David is a gifted writer who is emerging from a poor and desolate family… Read full article
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Dante’s Divine Comedy
By ExperiencePlus! Traveler Bill Giovinazzo A biography is something written in retrospect, it is always about the past. It has to be because you never know at the time what is significant. Sometimes the most innocent things, like a trip… Read full article
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Wild Tales – Written and Directed by Damián Szifrón
Argentine director and writer Damián Szifrón holds bragging rights for Argentina’s most popular film of 2014. His film “Wild Tales” was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign film, as well as, the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film… Read full article
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Suggested Reading & Movie Lists
It’s always handy to have a little knowledge about where you’re going and what you’ll be doing while you travel. Beyond all the great information on the ExperiencePlus! website, we recommend you grab a few travel guides for the countries… Read full article
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Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free, By Héctor Tobar On August 5th 2010 the San José mine located just outside of Copiapó, Chile collapsed and… Read full article
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The Emperor and The Saint….
The Emperor and The Saint Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Francis of Assisi, and Journeys to Medieval Placesm by Richard F. Cassady As the Foreword states, this book is the biography of a “giant” who traveled, ruled and fought across most… Read full article
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
“All the Light We Cannot See” was on almost everyone’s top books of 2014 list and was also a finalist for the National Book Award. This intriguing story follows two young people, Marie-Laure a blind girl who lives with her… Read full article
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Touring Club Italiano (TCI) Maps and Books
Paola and I just returned from two weeks in Puglia, the “heel” of Italy, where we explored small towns, villages and the regional capital of Bari relying mostly on guidebooks and maps published by the Touring Club Italiano (or TCI).… Read full article
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A Year in Burgundy Directed by David Kennard
My knowledge of wine is limited to what I can remember from the several wine tours I’ve been on with ExperiencePlus! and I’m confident that I would I would fail the “Davis test” (have a friend pour room temperature red… Read full article
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In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist by Pete Jordan
Here’s a book to add to your collection about bicycle history and advocacy. Don’t get me wrong, Pete Jordan’s book about the history of cycling in Amsterdam doesn’t rank among the classics like David Herlihy’s Bicycle: The History or John… Read full article
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It’s All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
Reviewed by Meredith Kruger There are those that build bikes, those that write about bikes, and those that write about building bikes. A book like that runs the risk of having strictly niche appeal for the hard core. When I… Read full article