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Welcome to my personal travel web site! My name is Monica Pileggi and I live in Maryland with my husband Tony and our dog Lucy. I love to travel, especially to Europe. It's been a passion all my life. I was born in Madrid Spain and grew up in various places, including Panama, Japan, Okinawa, and Hawaii, which is probably from where my travel passion grew. I have been traveling to Europe since 1990 and have visited Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, France, Germany and the Ukraine. My Baltic cruise in May 2005 gave me the opportunity to tour places for the first time such as Oslo, Helsinki, Saint Petersburg, and Tallinn. And in October 2008 I traveled to China for 24 nights!

I enjoy helping others with the planning of their trips. This travel web site contains information of places I've visited, hotels I've stayed in, restaurants I've enjoyed, recipes that I have collected, various travel tips, and my travel journals and photographs.

Contact me anytime with your questions, comments, suggestions, or stories about your travels via email.

Please sign my guestbook at the bottom of this page and leave me your comments so I know you stopped by.

Upcoming travels:

November 2009: I booked a wonderful Transatlantic cruise on the Celebrity Equinox for November 2009. It's a 14-night cruise starting in Rome and ending in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. Port included: Marseille, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Cartagena, and the Canary Islands. For those of you cruising with me, here's a link to port information that I am gathering. If you have any information to provide, I can add it.

I booked my cruise through my friend David Hayes. If you are ever interested in booking a cruise, contact him.

Copyright Notice

All images copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Monica J. Pileggi. All text and images appearing on this web site are property of Monica J. Pileggi and are protected by United States and International copyright laws. No images may be used in any form without written permission of Monica J. Pileggi and payment of required usage fees. To receive permission and reproduction rights, contact Monica J. Pileggi via Email.

Italian Notebook: This web site, has short daily notes about Italy, whether it's about food, towns, or events. I have a couple of short articles published this web site. This article is about the markets of Italy. This article is about Ravenna. I have a third article that will be published soon.