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I Heart My City: Katja’s Siena
Posted by I Heart My City on May 16, 2012
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Swiss expat Katja Meier arrived in Siena in 1999, fell in love with an olive grove, and never left. She lives with her Tuscan native husband and their two kids in Southern Tuscany, working as a health and life coach and organizing retreats for people from all over the world who are battling cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. She started…
A Seventh Grader Reports on Tuscany
Posted by Janelle Nanos on March 9, 2010 “Traveling is not just the seeing of sites, but it is your experiences that change who you are and how you think.” These wise words come from 12-year-old traveler Allison Herring, who visited Europe for the first time in 2008 with National Geographic’s Family Expeditions, and wrote an essay about the traditional Tuscan Palio horseraces…
