Italy is a renowned tourist destination with millions of tourists visiting it annually. People take Italy tours for various reasons. Some come in for religious pilgrimage, some come to see the many monuments and artefacts some of which are housed in the many museums of Italy, while others visit Italy for honeymoon and family vacations. Regardless of the reason for visiting Italy, all visitors stand equal chances of enjoying a blend of history and sophistication. Italy has a myriad of tourist attractions that will meet and surpass the expectations of its many tourists. Visitors can organize their itinerary in such a way that they can sample the various attractions found in the adjacent cities of Italy. Newlyweds are not left behind. They too can get a chance of enjoying their…

Posted by: Phin Upham In the article “Before There Was Paradise,” John Tayman writes about the forgotten history of the island of Molokai. According to the article, for a little over 100 years the government used the island as a place to send people who had leprosy. It describes the reasons why the Hawaiian and American governments would send more than 8,000 people to a remote place like Molokai. They thought leprosy was extremely contagious, isolation was the only way to control the disease, and that the people they sent there were doomed to die anyway. However, the governments were wrong on all three counts. The article describes the story of the way people were sent to the island to live in brutal conditions. Over the years many writers, celebrity…

By Phin Upham Are you ready to explore the Italian coast? In a recent article in The New York Times, writer Liesl Schillinger revisits an area in Italy that was hit hard with torrential rainfall two years ago. The place is Cinque Terre, a strip of coast on the Italian Riviera in the Liguria region of Italy. If you’ve never been there before this article is a great introduction, revealing how locals recovered after the storm and why it’s such a popular tourist destination. As a result of the torrential rains two years ago, nearly every business in the village of Vernazza was destroyed and the village of Monterosso was flooded. One woman happened to get the entire storm on film. In the article, Schillinger happens to meet this native…