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essential tips for visiting Rome

10 Essential top tips for visiting Rome

November 15, 2018

This isn’t a blog post about what to see and where to visit in Rome – you probably know most of that already! However there are a few things the guide books and travel blogs might not have mentioned that would be quite useful if you’re planning a sight-seeing holiday to Rome….

jack o'lantern blaze

Visiting the Jack o’lantern Blaze & wearing my new purple coat

October 30, 2018

We couldn’t be in America without visiting a Halloween event, could we? Friends recommended the Jack o’lantern Blaze at Croton-on-Hudson in New York, and we were lucky enough to get tickets. This event sells out weeks beforehand, but I think I happened to be online when a new batch was released for an 8:30pm time slot on Tuesday. So I bought the tickets in a bit of a panic, but didn’t really know what it was I was buying them for!…