{"id":139,"date":"2012-01-17T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=139"},"modified":"2012-01-17T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T02:30:00","slug":"italy-lakes-tour-in-spring-will-have-you-over-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/01\/italy-lakes-tour-in-spring-will-have-you-over-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"ITALY LAKES TOUR IN SPRING WILL HAVE YOU OVER THE MOON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wwIySLFhdGc\/TxTdMYppGwI\/AAAAAAAASjc\/2BZMJ0XqF4U\/s1600\/Italy%2BTeatro-Olimpico%2Brsz-709238.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wwIySLFhdGc\/TxTdMYppGwI\/AAAAAAAASjc\/2BZMJ0XqF4U\/s320\/Italy%2BTeatro-Olimpico%2Brsz-709238.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698422633375800066\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAROLINASUSI Italia Tours has a 15-night escorted tour of Italy&#8217;s Northern Lakes District this European Spring that&#8217;s purely for gourmets and garden lovers, shopaholics and serious sightseers, photographers \u2013 and the just plain-curious.<\/p>\n<p>Limited to just 20-guests escorted by Carolinasusi&#8217;s Australian owners, this unique tour will venture from the streets of Romeo and Juliet&#8217;s Verona to the bar in Varese in which the cocktail Apollo 11 was created 40-odd years ago on the night\u00a0 &#8220;a man named Armstrong walked upon the Moon,&#8221; to the villas of the rich and famous of the 1920s and &#8217;30s, dining with a renowned local chef, and unspoiled little towns and market villages that larger coaches cannot access.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast there&#8217;ll be the chance to explore Vicenza (including its Teatro Olimpico that opened in the 1580s as Europe&#8217;s first theatre,) Venice and its boutiques for designer clothes\u2026 and in little Marostica the possibility to dine in one of Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s favourite restaurants.*<\/p>\n<p>Or try a coffee with traditional hazelnut, almond, cinnamon and vanilla biscuits, chocolates in more ways than you thought possible, cruise postcard-perfect lakes, wander historic gardens, sip wines from centuries-old family vineyards\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The May 21 tour is priced from $6895pp ex-Milan including 15-nights twin-share, breakfasts and most dinners, lunches in alpine and lakeside venues, coach touring, lake cruises, villa entries, walking tours of Verona, Vicenza and Venice, a rack-railway trip and Australian escorts assisted by local professional guides.<\/p>\n<p>Details on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolinasusi.com.au\">www.carolinasusi.com.au<\/a> or phone 1800 770 599.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0* The restaurant today still serves his favourite dish: vegetables marinated in olive oil and lemon juice and baked with sausages and pork.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAROLINASUSI Italia Tours has a 15-night escorted tour of Italy&#8217;s Northern Lakes District this European Spring that&#8217;s purely for gourmets and garden lovers, shopaholics and serious sightseers, photographers \u2013 and the just plain-curious. Limited to just 20-guests escorted by Carolinasusi&#8217;s Australian owners, this unique tour will venture from the streets of Romeo and Juliet&#8217;s Verona [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}