Tagged With "Audrey Hepburn"

  There are few places in France of greater historic importance than Chinon.  You wouldn’t know that by what you see when you drive thru it today as it seems a small sleepy rural town.  You’ll see little evidence of...

Conde Naste posted a nice piece on 50 films that most influenced travel, which you can find here. As a kid growing up on the Canadian prairies, I do recall films helping open my eyes to the great world out there.  Several come immediately to...

Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck meet on the Spanish Steps in Roman Holiday (1953)   Rome has gotten more than its share of criticism in recent years for poorly-maintained monuments, but the pendulum may be swinging the other way. The iconic...

Bulgari paid for renovations; head of company calls tourists 'barbarians' and wants steps fenced off at night.

Thanks for the wonderful memories. As to the rooms named for stars, we found that the Spencer Tracey and Katherine Hepburn rooms are adjacent, and have a connecting door between them. Things that make you go hmmmmm