Where to Find the Best View in Italy

Every time I go to Venice, I get caught in that star struck moment—is it live, is it Disney, or is it even Las Vegas?...

Could This Year’s Beautiful Acqua Alta in Venice Be the Last?

If you are lucky enough as a tourist to have been inundated with water in San Marco, you will have been the recipient of the...

Italia Nord, Italia Sud, and the Trains that Unite Them

Italy is a strange and wonderful country. It is at once hopelessly inefficient, exasperating, and unfathomable. Its regions are fiercely independent and culturally alien to...

A Decadent History of Italy’s Most Popular Chocolates

This blog post was written by ACIS Tour Manager, Giacomo Gambone. The history of chocolate as we know it, the most innocent of all sins,...

How a Rainy Weekend in Venice is Incredibly Charming

This is a guest post written by ACIS Group Leader & French teacher from Chicago, Erin Maliszewski. This post was originally published on www.rudeysroom.com There...

When Traveling to Italy During Carnavale, Watch Out for Flying Oranges

This blog post was written by ACIS Tour Manager, Giacomo Gambone. I bet most of you have memories of a Carnival. Lived in first person...

An Umbrian Adventure

As you zip along the autostrada between Florence and Rome, Orvieto is one of those places that you may have caught a glimpse of and...

The Perks of the Dolomites in the Summer

After a minor hassle at the car rental counter in Venice’s Marco Polo Airport, I drove with my Stradale d’Italia Atlas away from the busy...

Sicilian Cooking 101: Pasta de la Sarde

I love food and I love to travel. This is probably because I am English and as a kid we didn’t get to travel much and...

My Return to Sicily, Part 2

Today we headed to the town of Noto, one of the eight towns in South-Eastern Sicily that were rebuilt after 1693 due to a huge...