Kathryn Casey Aug 13, 2019 4 min A Meet-up, a Memory, and Two Epiphanies It's a kick to meet expats and hear about their towns and experiences. I'd found Mark, a transplant from Seattle only two years ago, in o...
Kathryn Casey Jul 31, 2019 2 min Trastevere: Sacred & Profane, Anachronistic & Alive, Gorgeous & Gritty Festooned as it is with ivy and bougainvillea (or some other flower I've decided to call bougainvillea) and packed as it is with cool sho...
Kathryn Casey Apr 9, 2019 5 min Lend me your ears. Well, friends, Romans, and others who get the idea... I’ve shamefully neglected this blog for weeks, in part because I’ve been low on mat...
Kathryn Casey Feb 17, 2019 4 min Strangers on Trains “Is there a train called an expresso here?,” the American 20-something shouted at the woman behind the ticket window at the Santa Lucia s...
Kathryn Casey Jan 24, 2019 3 min Genoa: Two Tales of One City The first and only time I visited Genoa prior to my stop there a few weeks ago, I had the distinct impression of a sinister city; positiv...
Kathryn Casey Jan 6, 2019 3 min Venice: Chiaroscuro and Color When I rolled into Venice Tuesday evening, so did the fog. The moody atmosphere it created seemed just right for photographing the Bridge...
Kathryn Casey Dec 30, 2018 2 min Christmastime in Rome The Nativity Scene There’s no place like Rome for a nativity scene, called in Italian a presepio or presepe. Both terms are correct, acco...
Kathryn Casey Dec 15, 2018 5 min A Venice state of mind “…For I think there can be nothing else in the world so full of glittering and exquisite surprise as that first glimpse of Venice which t...
Kathryn Casey Dec 4, 2018 3 min Have a good trip? I probably will. I’ll be going to Italy for several weeks right after Christmas. I’ll fly into Rome and spend a few days there and continue on to Genoa an...
Kathryn Casey Oct 25, 2018 1 min Bologna bulletin If you happen to be in Bologna in early 2019, you might want to look into this: Word on the street is that Abruzzese painter Gigino Falco...
