Yoga in Italy, Healthy Food Tours in Puglia

More than a vacation, more than a tourist, have an adventure in Italy with yltour  the creator of personal travel in Puglia, Italy.

Now you can bring friends and clients for a private Yoga retreat in Puglia.   But it is so much more:

healthy cooking lessons, explore mental and physical health techniques all in an incredible location.

BRING YOUR OWN YOGA GROUP

YLTOUR  offers YOGA & HEALTH Retreats in Puglia.

Here’s a list of good reasons for joining our Yoga & Healthy Retreats in Puglia 

year round:

1. Exercise -. practice yoga and walk along the beautiful Puglia scenic roads

2. Healthy Food –cook with locals delicious vegetarian dishes and drink health juices

3. Breath - Learn techniques to increase vitality and happiness through simple emotions and actions

4. Live like a local – explore and taste like a local with sweet local people

5. Taste - amazing local wines and relax amidst the vineyards

6. Explore the benefits of the Mediterranean diet

7. Learn how to use good quality extra virgin olive oil and relax amidst olive trees

8. Relax - restore balance and enjoy an amazing travel experience with new warm local friends

9. Indulge in an art and creative travel experience

10. Think Positive - you are what you think .. positive thinking brings mental health and a peaceful, joyful mind.

Your daily schedule is full of fun and interesting activities: healthy cooking classes, art workshops, excursions.

Triple, Double, Single accommodation.

Minimum Group Size is 8 – with one free teacher with each 8 paid participants

ROME TAXI FARES INCREASiING

   My expert for questions on Rome is Ron in Rome.   His web site gives all the info for a first time visitor and as a perpetual traveler Home To Italy, I use it as a resource for my own needs in Rome and Italy:  trains, buses, where to stay, navigate the train station or the airport.

   Now Ron Phillips offers expanded full service travel services at: 

Ron Phillips Travel – Atlanta, Georgia
An Independent Advisor for Brownell Travel – A Virtuoso® Agency 

contact information is at the bottom of his great post on Taxi's in Rome

New Taxi Rates Take Effect in Rome

Finally, after years of speculation, taxi rates in Rome were discretely adjusted. With little fanfare, the new, higher rates were implemented on May 23, 2012.  What was confusing before – getting to Rome from FCO Airport – is now even more challenging because now there are multiple fixed rates, depending on your destination.

 

Airport Fees

Here is the official announcement: “After studies and tests carried out from Rome for Mobility Services at the request of the Department of Capital Mobility and Transport of Rome, were set at the following rates:”

Fiumicino (FCO) – Leonardo Da Vinci Airport

• 45€  to/from the Fiumicino Airport and Roma Ostiense Train Station
• 48€  to/from Fiumicino Airport and the fixed-rate-zone, inside the Aurelian Walls
• 55€  to/from the Fiumicino Airport and the Roma Tiburtina Train Station
• 120€  to and from the Fiumicino Airport and the port of Civitavecchia

Ciampino (CIA) – Giovan Battista Pastine Airport

• 30€  to/from Ciampino Airport and the fixed-rate-zone, inside the Aurelian Walls
• 30€  to/from Ciampino Airport and Roma Ostiense Train Station
• 35€ to/from Ciampino Airport and the Roma Tiburtina Train Station

Photo Tour in Italy with Yle

TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY

Yele  will show you where to look

When you travel do you take endless photos of  'must see' buildings, bridges and monuments?

With digital cameras we can snap hundreds of photos with the plan to sort and file them when we return home.     

How many of your photos are so memorable that they do not need a written explanation for a casual viewer?    

Take a travel adventure in Italy and photograph towns off the tourist trail, seaside villages, the beautiful countryside and the people of part of Italy that is less traveled:  PUGLIA.

 

Off  the beaten path to some of the most remote areas of Puglia!

Are you planning a trip to Puglia and do you like taking unique pictures?   Capture the genuine beauty of Puglia while discovering the places which make Puglia famous.

Become a photographerr on this tour and enjoy all the beautiful things Puglia can offer  you: scenic roads, landscapes, food, wine, local people, daily life in small local villages. 

 Discover with Yle the most hidden and unconventional Puglia: a relaxing experience of photography through beautiful landscapes, food, wine, baroque, art, traditions.

Buying a home in Italy, a checklist

Have you always dreamed of a home in Italy?

Isabell Salesny with CasaItaly.it kindly outlined the process.

Make your dream come true.  Contact CasaItaly.it for more details, the services they offer and how they can assist you in purchasing your home in Italy!

When buying/selling property in Italy a checklist with all necessary documents is needed.

Time and persistence could be helpful to close the deal. So here is what you need to know before getting started:

CHECKLIST FOR BUYING/SELLING PROPERTY IN ITALY

three steps:

1)                  proposta irrevocabile (reservation offer): will be registered at the tax office

Cost:  0,50% of the indicated amount + 168 euros + tax stamps (1 stamp: 14,62 euros every 4 pages or 100 lines)

2)                  contratto preliminare (preliminary contract): will be registered at the tax office at the same conditions above.
The presence of a notary is not mandatory for the contratto preliminare.
3)                  rogito - atto di vendita (deed of sale): will be registered at the Conservatoria by the notary
It is also possible to skip the preliminary contract.

Required DOCUMENTS

Deed of provenance - previous contract of sale (atto di provenienza) or hereditary succession ( atto di successione)

Floor plan (piantina catastale): if it doesn't correspond a new one has to be drawn up by a building surveyor and registered  at the land registry

Cadastral survey (Visura catastale)

Conservatoria survey (property title and mortgage registry)

Nota trascrizione (Note of transcription) of the property title

Mortgage survey (Ipoteca): Although a mortgage has been paid entirely, the note needs to be cancelled by a notary at the Conservatoria. (So there might be a note of a mortgage that just needs to be cancelled)

Certificate of habitability (Certificato di Agibilità)

(Documentation of  Condono (Amnesty for infringement of local building regulations))

Energy certificate (Certificato energetico)

Condominium regulations (Regolamento condominiale) and Report of property management expenses  (Rendiconto spese dell'amministratore condominiale)

TAXES:

Italian Organic Cooking in Puglia

• Our friend Yle, the creator of Yltour.com has another great oportunity to experience Puglia, Italy from the inside:   cooking organic.      

•  Think of walking to the market to select fresh produce, breads and fruits that will be transformed that day into a special organic meal.

ORGANIC COOKING CLASSES IN PUGLIA WITH YLE

Organic produce simply tastes so much better

Enjoy some unique culinary based expeditions and  learn to cook delicious authentic Puglia dishes using organic ingredients 

Have you ever wanted to know more about the benefit of the Mediterranean diet and how to cook delicious recipes straight from the most delicious Puglia culinary traditions? 

Yle is a 100% native pugliese (she lives in the amazing Baroque city of Lecce) living in the area and an expert in all things Puglia:   genuine lifestyle, wine, food, local traditions.

She loves running her business and working with some spectacular local mums providing some of the most popular cooking classes in Puglia.  Traditional cooking classes as well as organic classes are offered.     Yle, being a vegetarian and a profound lover of organic food and healthy lifestyle, teaches the organic cooking lessons herself!