Articles tagged ‘ferrari’

4 Most Expensive Italian Cars

By Jessica | July 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Personally, I’m not much of a car person. But I know plenty of people who love to travel in Italy love it partly because it is the land where so many shiny red and yellow fast cars are born. One of these people happens to be the husband, with whom I have visited both the [...]

Another Close Encounter of the Ferrari Kind

By Jessica | June 15th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

Some of you may remember a post I wrote about the husband’s and my last trip to Italy, where we stopped outside Bologna to see a Ferrari Formula 1 car on the legendary car maker’s own test track. (That’s the outline of the track to the right - no, it’s not a weird crop circle.) [...]

Italian News Snippets: 24 February 2007

By Jessica | February 24th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

Now, this would be something to see - Vatican soccer teams made up of priests and trainee clergyman start playing this Saturday in a bid for the Clericus Cup.

On February 19th Italy celebrated “World Slow Day,” which was apparently amazingly successful, as the announcement hit the sites I read the day after the event. Now [...]

Ferrari Tours in Italy

By Jessica | February 22nd, 2007 | Add a Comment »

If just being in the land that spawned such racing legends as Lamborghini and Maserati isn’t enough, why not rent a Ferrari to drive around in?
Red Travel (because yes, Ferraris should be red) offers one-eight day self-drive tours through Lazio, Umbria and Tuscany. Worried about getting lost? Or wondering where on earth you’ll put your [...]

Seeing (and Hearing) a Ferrari on its Home Turf: Fiorano’s Test Track

By Jessica | January 26th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

Want to see an Italian Formula 1 car in action, but don’t want to pay the high ticket prices at Monza or San Marino? Head to the Ferrari test track outside Bologna.
The husband went to Monza in 2004 and had a glorious time (Ferrari was first and second on the day, so the Italians were [...]