Manara's VirtualTourist Home Page

I travel quite often for work and sometimes I use for my holidays the knowledge I have got on business trips. If you are curious about my job, I work for an international medical association, and most of my time is devoted to planning and organising its large congresses, that are held in a different country every year. That's how I happen to know so many hotels.

With time I have become tired of packing and unpacking too often, so I now prefer holidays in which I stay in a place and make one-day trips in the region.

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I am also a bit tired of hotels. They are great for a short stay, but for a longer holiday (one week or more) the privacy and the larger space of an apartment or a cottage is much better. For this reason I am a happy share-holder in a big, well established company of shared properties, so from 1999 until now I have spent holidays in "my" apartments in Munich, Amsterdam, Vienna, London, the Alps (Swiss, Austrian and French), and by Lake Maggiore. It is essential, of course, to have a travel companion who is willing to share equally the house chores, but I am lucky with this regard.

I am not photogenic, so I never liked being in front of a camera. This means I do not have many recent pictures of me. Anyway you will fid some pictures of me in some of my travel tips.

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Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

My most recent holidays

Among my pages the ones with more tips are those on locations I have visited many times, or the ones where I have been on holiday. I spent the last summer holidays in
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, so I have created a page about it, and about some villages I have visited while I was there: Les Praz, Argentiere, Servoz, Vallorcine, Montroc.
Whereas there were already several pages about Chamonix, the other locations had no page at all on this website. I like being the first to post some pictures and info about places that so far were just names on a database and a map.

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My most recent pages and tips

Sice I keep going back to cities I have already been to, I often update my pages and add tips to them.
My newest page, instead, is the one about Skopje, where I have been for the first time in October 2008.

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I have been also to Oviedo recently, but I have not had time yet to write any tips.

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More about me

Some people say that the contents of a woman's bag can tell a lot about her personality. I am not sure, but I don't have a problem with disclosing the contents of my bag to you, in case it helps you to know me better.