Tag: technology

  • Apps along the way!

    Apps along the way!

    As we’ve been visiting different cities, I have been experimenting with some different travel apps to use on our devices/phones to help make our travel either more efficient or more fun.  For example, using the Huntzz app, Zoe did a blog post of a scavenger hunt in Vincenza, and Mikhaila posted a hunt in Verona. …

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  • Fabulous Florence – Discovering the Secrets!

    Fabulous Florence – Discovering the Secrets!

    Florence is a beautiful city full of fabulous art and history. Over the course of our stay, and as you can see by Mik and Zoe’s blog posts, we went a couple of tours that focused upon the Renaissance and the Medici family. On our own we did a couple of scavenger hunts with the…

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  • Happy Halloween!

    Happy Halloween!

    Happy Halloween Everybody! For our post today, we used a website to write stories called Storybird. But this website is different than most – it’s reverse storytelling. Artists provide pictures and inspire you to write a story about what is happening in them. When you create a story, the pictures can be used in any order and as…

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  • A Hunt Around Verona

    A Hunt Around Verona

    While in Verona, like Zoe, I decided to make a Hunt. It is run on the app Huntzz and is a virtual treasure hunt. There are clues to follow around the city, and when the right answer is chosen, information is given on the building, monument or site that you are seeing. . The first…

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  • A Treasure Hunt Around Vicenza

    A Treasure Hunt Around Vicenza

    We left Munich, Germany and made our way towards sunny Italy. We were able to meet up again with our friend Lydia to tour the lovely city of Vicenza.  It was great to have her with us because she knew a lot about art history and  architecture. To make our touring a little more interesting,…

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