Fleur Kinson is a freelance journalist based in Oxford, England. She spent part of her childhood in America, and has spent the last fifteen years travelling round continental Europe whenever possible - especially Italy, a country on which she has accidentally become a bit of an expert. Fleur has degrees in English Literature and English-Language Linguistics, and used to work for the Oxford English Dictionary. She is the author of a guidebook to Lake Bolsena in Lazio, Italy (see link in 'my links'). Unfortunately for a travel writer, Fleur hates flying and hates staying in hotels! But it's all worth it to see somewhere new. She regularly writes about Italian travel, property and food for various magazines.

Travel > Italy Travel destinations: Brindisi, Italy

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Ten years ago, Brindisi was best known as a city you had to pass through on the way to somewhere more desirable. Few visitors wanted to hang around, and most reluctantly killed a few hours here before boarding their onward ferry to Greece or Turkey. Even now, guidebooks and travel websites are generally disparaging about this ancient transport hub on the south-eastern tip of Italy. But they're misinformed, and woefully out of date. Brindisi has utterly transformed itself over the last decade, and now this place of passing-through is somewhere you'll want to linger. Whether you arrive here b...

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