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Victoria Van Der Berg at a Milan aperitivo bar in the evening

Victoria Van Der Berg at a Milan aperitivo bar in the evening

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Victoria Van Der Berg at the Milan Duomo at dusk

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Aug 13

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Was planning on leaving the Dolomites today, but i got sidetracked.

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Aug 12

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We took an old South Tyrolean house for our last day in the Dolomites, and when the cloud came down over the meadow, we didn’t fight it. I spent the afternoon cooking badly and happily in a butter-yellow kitchen, with copper pans on the wall and rain against the glass.

Dinner by candlelight, an old phonograph playing, and then the cloud lifted. I lay in the wet grass watching the first stars appear, the house glowing behind me. The day I thought we’d lost to the weather became the one I’ll probably remember most.

On a rainy day away, do you go out anyway, or stay in and make it cosy?

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Aug 11

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The guidebooks are so busy telling you the Dolomites are cold that they forget to mention days like this. Warm meadows beneath the Sciliar, a picnic beside an old hay barn, cowbells drifting down the mountain and a small green lake that had no business being warm, but was.

Perhaps the places that undo us are almost never the grand ones. Sometimes it is only a goat with a familiar expression, a handful of alpine flowers, or water that should have been cold and was not.

#Dolomites #AlpeDiSiusi #SouthTyrol #ItalianAlps #DolomitesItaly

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Aug 10

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Nobody warns you that these mountains keep a secret hour.

For a few minutes before sunset, the pale stone of the Dolomites turns rose, then coral, then a deep and impossible red. The Ladin people call it enrosadira, the turning to rose.

It happens quickly enough that looking away feels reckless. Perhaps that is part of its beauty. The mountains give you no choice but to be exactly where you are.

#Dolomites #ItalianDolomites #Ortisei #SouthTyrol #ItalyTravel

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Aug 9

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Venice in pale silk and faded gold, with music drifting across the water and the afternoon moving too slowly to be entirely innocent. An accordion somewhere beyond the square, a gondolier disappearing beneath a bridge, cold drinks beneath the arcades and sunlight trembling against old marble. Everything here feels a little extravagant, a little holy and far too beautiful to last.

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Aug 8

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What if the most beautiful part of Venice isn’t Venice at all?

I left the city for a day and followed the lagoon instead, to Murano’s glassmakers working beside the fire, Burano’s lace women and impossible painted houses, and Torcello, where Venice began and has now almost disappeared back into the grass. By evening I was crossing the water home, watching the domes of Venice slowly rise against the sky, thinking about how often we remember beautiful things but forget the hands that made them. If you could disappear to one Venetian island for a day, would you choose Murano, Burano or Torcello?

The Painted Islands, the third entry from my Venice diary.

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Aug 7

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Speak softly love. ❤️

Bologna surprised me. Venice wears love openly, Verona writes it on walls, but Bologna keeps it quieter, tucked beneath miles of porticoes where people walk close enough to share an umbrella without ever needing to ask. I spent the afternoon watching couples, students, and old friends drift through the streets, and I realised that perhaps the happiest kind of love isn’t dramatic at all. It’s the person who still walks beside you after thousands of ordinary days.

Maybe that’s why Bologna feels so romantic. Not because it tells the greatest love stories, but because it reminds you that the best ones don’t end when the butterflies do. They simply become part of everyday life.

True love starts long after the butterflies have gone.

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Aug 7

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Venice. Have you been here?

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Aug 5

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City of Lovers. ❤️

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Aug 4

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What happens when the place that made you no longer wants you?

Full story tomorrow at link in bio.

#Verona #DanteAlighieri #VeronaItaly #EuropeanTravel #TravelDiary

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Aug 3

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People leave thousands of letters here every year, hoping Juliet might somehow know the answer.

Perhaps that’s the real magic of Verona. Not the balcony, or the story itself, but the reminder that hope has always found a way to put itself into words.

I didn’t leave a letter.

I simply wandered the little courtyard, read a few that others had written, and carried their questions with me for the rest of the day.

What's even more beautiful is there is a group of volunteers who respond to each letter.

Full story at Letters from Juliet. Link in bio.

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Aug 2

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O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? 🌹

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Aug 1

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I thought Lake Garda was the destination.

Then the cable car kept climbing.

The lake grew smaller, the air cooler, and suddenly the whole shoreline unfolded beneath me. It’s strange how a place you’ve spent all day exploring can look completely different from a little higher up.

Some views don’t replace the journey. They simply remind you why you took it.

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Jul 31

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Belle Époque.

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Jul 30

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Today was all grand villas, little stone villages, gardens spilling down to the water, and mountains fading into the distance. Every stop felt like discovering a place that somehow escaped the crowds.

Tomorrow there will be another road, another town, another view. But for now, I’m happy to let the lake set the pace.

The full diary is linked in my bio.

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Jul 29

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My last morning on Lake Como, and somehow the light saved its best for goodbye. One last set on the clay court, a slow walk along the lake, dinner by the water as the sun disappeared behind the mountains, and tomorrow, north to Lake Maggiore. You can fall completely in love with a place and still be excited to see what’s waiting around the next bend.

The full diary is linked in my bio.

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Jul 28

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There are places you discover, and there are places that quietly become part of your life.

I’ve been coming to Lake Como since I was little, and somehow it still surprises me. The same mountains. The same light on the water. Different versions of me.

Some places never stop feeling like home.

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Jul 27

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Lake Como feels like home. I've been coming here since I was a child. And still, every corner of Lake Como seems to reveal another reason to stay a little longer. A quiet garden, a lakeside café, a tiny harbour, a path that disappears into the hills. Exploring here feels less like sightseeing and more like collecting moments you’ll think about long after you’ve gone.

Are you a planner, or do you like to explore wherever the day takes you?

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Jul 26

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Groovy kind of love. 🩵🤍🤍

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Jul 25

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There is something about the light here that refuses to hurry. It arrives softly across the lake, catches the old stone villas and the mountains beyond, then lingers just long enough to make everything feel a little more beautiful than it did a moment before. I found myself slowing down without even noticing, simply following wherever that light decided to lead. Some places ask you to see them. Lake Como asks you to stay a little longer.

✨ Have you ever been somewhere that made time feel slower?

#LakeComo #ItalyTravel #TravelItaly #DolceVita #Wanderlust

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