Flavio's blog - Part 12
 

2 weeks in New York: guide and itinerary for those who return again

I have already spoken, in a previous article, of the’route to be followed The first time we went to New York, for ten days, indicating all the things not to be missed and “Tourist” you can not NOT do, the first time in New York.
Brooklyn Bridge, the view from the Empire State Building, large lawns of Central Park, to name a few.

10 days, however, pass quickly, and in such a big city is always that bitter aftertaste of not being able to do everything. For lack of time, for example, I was not able to visit Roosevelt Island, learn more about visiting Williamsburg Brooklyn, or walk around the pond at Flushing Meadows, nel Queens.

Some time ago I returned to almost two weeks in New York, doing two fast shunts Hoboken (to try the desserts of Carlo's Bakery) and Atlantic City, La Piccola Las Vegas della East Coast. …Read the rest »

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HOWTO: Use the API Wunderground – practical example

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(last update of December 2014: Added the ability to also show the predictions of the day, complete with a summary and icon of the weather conditions.)

Weather Underground is a very useful site meteorology, that referral to a decade, which detects in real time the weather conditions , and makes predictions.

The reliability is guaranteed by the many stations of the fans who send their data to the website, and which are installed precisely in the area.

The special, very convenient for anyone who owns a website, is that it also makes available the convenient API to interact with the data and to, for example, report in real time the temperature of a weather station, directly on their site, or perhaps predictions for a particular location. …Read the rest »

3 days (full) in London? Quick and itinerary!

God Save the Queen!

This is true, but it is also true that, in addition to the Queen, it is right to save our time, avoid going around in circles in a big city like London.

Useful to arrive prepare an itinerary, trying to make the most of your day (that, species in December, as when I went I, has very few hours of daylight!).

Suppose we have 3 FULL day in London (excluding, Then, flights), as in this guide.

The metropolitan, “The Tube”, is definitely the fastest way to move, although damn expensive, than the standard continental and American! …Read the rest »

3 days in Boston: guide and itinerary

In the heart of New England, Northeast U.S., sorge il Commonwealth (is still called so!) Some Massachusetts.

Boston and, certainly, the North American city more “European” I have ever visited. The architecture reminds London much more than other cities in the Northeast, and its dialect, characteristic for its non-roticità (do not pronounce the letter “r”) has close links, in fact, con il British English.

Famous in the world are the most prestigious universities in the WITH and Harvard (that, Indeed, are located in neighboring Cambridge).

It is the city which started the revolt of the colonies against the British (the famous Tea Party took place in Boston Harbor), the city of patriots John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Hancock… if you decide to follow the guided tour of the Freedom Trail, a guide dressed in eighteenth century clothes will explain it better than I.. 🙂 …Read the rest »