This week, Good Life Review and Glamour Cow are exchanging travel articles.  Join us as we tour some new locations from a different perspective.  Visit Glamour Cow to read articles by three of your favorite GLR authors. Meanwhile, we hope you enjoy this article by Michelle Romano! PADOVA, ITALY- On a rainy Saturday morning, I stand under a white tarp tent managing to inspect a pair of designer-imposter flats while clutching my damp umbrella and securing my soaked handbag from pick-pockets. The flats are 15 euro, and it seems like I can get about two seasons of wear out of...

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Ah. . . the open road.A Time to stuff our trunks full with luggage and take control of the wheel.A Some like to drive for the scenic views, the cost savings, or spur of the moment decision.A How do you plan the trip, though? When my final destinationA is within twelve hours from me, I usually drive.A I noticed that the time it takes me to get to the airport, check my luggage, goA through security, onto my layover, then off the plane, to baggage claim and to my vacation location is often just as long, if...

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I know that people always rave about going to Italy and visiting the Colosseum or going to Vatican City, but I would not say that it is a place that should be written down on your "places to go before I die" list. Granted, it was good to have seen famous pieces of history, such as Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel or the Trevi Fountain, but people hype everything to seem so grandeur. You may think that I'm just too young to understand the magnificent significance of these pieces of history and that I just don't understand the symbolic meanings; or...

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The boot is the image of the geographical shape one thinks of when visualizing Italy (and getting a car hire Italy) and then at the bottom of the boot at its toe is the island of Sicily. The history of Sicily could be entitled "the cradle of invasion". The 8th century finds Sicily under the boot of the Greeks who left their imprint on the island of temples and theaters which today finds these ruins a great attraction for tourists. Then the Romans established Sicily as the first province of their empire. The legacy of Arabs to this...

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