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April 10, 2013 – 7:00 am | 4 Comments

It seems cliché to speak of reawakening after a long Winter, but with the amount of rain we got this year, putting England to shame, even a slight glimpse of Spring is extremely welcome. Easter came early this year and for a few hours on Sunday morning here in Maremma, the skies cleared, the sun …

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Umbria through Instagram (and other Android apps)

April 25, 2012 – 3:33 pm | 3 Comments

If you thought Instagram was just a gimmicky way to make crap photos into good ones, think again. I’m a recent convert; very specifically, I converted last week when Kirsten Alana showed a group of us in an iphoneography workshop the amazing things she can do with her iPhone 4s. The take-home message was: if …

iBiennale: Venice Biennale of Architecture now on iphone

November 9, 2010 – 5:33 pm |

I don’t have an ipad, so when I heard that there was an ipad app for the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture, I thought “cool” and that was it. Now there’s also an iphone app for that – iBiennale. So if you’re headed to Venice to catch the show before it closes November 21st, make …

Travel In Rome with Foursquare

September 29, 2010 – 11:44 am |

Okay, the title of the post is a leeetle misleading… because last week I wasn’t so much traveling in Rome with Foursquare as actually in Rome, with the co-founder of Foursquare. Yup, yours truly got sent for work to an event held at Telecom headquarters called World Wide Apps at which Naveen Selvadurai was a …

Tuscany+ augmented reality free iphone app

May 7, 2010 – 1:10 pm | One Comment

The future of traveling is technological, and it’s here in Tuscany. The region of Tuscany has just released an iphone application that uses augmented reality technology. When you point your iphone’s camera at any scene in Tuscany, overlays information about monuments, accomodation, food, and nightlife.
The application is made in Italy by the super cool company …

Three free iphone apps for travel in Italy

April 27, 2010 – 3:22 pm | 2 Comments

Sorry Blackberry users, but iphones these days are so popular, even the cat has one. If you’re traveling in Italy with your iphone you can take advantage of these three FREE apps to help you on your way.
1) Pronto Treno: Trenitalia’s iphone app is the best way to access train timetables while on the fly. …

iphone/ ipod touch friendly!

August 7, 2008 – 7:53 pm |

Arttrav uses a wordpress plugin that makes this website’s content easy to access using an ipod touch or iphone. Bookmark arttrav on your device for easy access while you travel. (Your i-thing should recognize this version automatically.)