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Dear Juliet: Wherefore all the hoopla in Verona?

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To visit or not to visit? That question tormented me before and after arriving in Verona. Juliet’s House, with its fake balcony and bronze breast, is an admitted tourist trap.

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Splendid Sicily stars in bike tour

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I’d been a commuter cyclist for many years but had never done a long distance, multi-day bike tour. So when I turned 50 in 2012, I celebrated this milestone birthday by cycling in Sicily.

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