Raise your glasses and loosen your corsets: Venice Carnevale offers an extra weekend of parties in 2011, extending the city's marathon pre-Lent celebrations to three weeks.
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These rambles take walkers through quintessential British countryside and to a well-earned pub meal at day’s end.
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This buzzing city is on the cutting edge of the European food scene.
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With its medieval walled villages and ochre-coloured villas, set within a landscape of vineyards, cypress trees and hills rolling down to the coast, you could spend a lifetime exploring the best of Tuscany.
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Imagine you’re a medieval lord or lady in historic San Gimignano; watch the world go by in Siena’s busy central square; walk or cycle through the magnificient, Renaissance-style countryside of Le Crete Senesi; then enjoy a tipple or two in wine-making Montalcino; before hitting the waves and exploring the Maremma coast.
This green-hilled region was the scene of many bloody battles between England and Scotland and is steeped in history.
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