22 Hours in Ravenna
From Pescara, Rosie and I dashed to the famous mosaic city of Ravenna in Emilia-Romagna, which I'd long wanted to visit. Ravenna once was...
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Around Italy
Kathryn Casey
- Feb 2
- 8 min
Postcards from (and of) Rosie & me
(Wish you were here?) I’d planned this brief January trip to meet with Sergio, the property manager, to go over work to be done this...
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Kathryn Casey
- Nov 25, 2022
- 3 min
Hymn to Venice #1022
Venice doesn’t just make me happy; it makes me aware that I’m happy. I guess that's at least partly because Venice wakes up my senses....
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Kathryn Casey
- Nov 10, 2022
- 2 min
A Gallop Through Venice
I can never get enough of Venice, so made a run there before I left Italian soil in October. This time, I was staying at the hotel Ai...
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Kathryn Casey
- Jul 24, 2022
- 6 min
Table for Six, Per Favore!
This trip was a real departure for me. I’m accustomed to traveling to Italy alone, but this time I was flanked by a jaunty gaggle of...
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Kathryn Casey
- May 12, 2022
- 6 min
Robbed in Rome
I was robbed at Rome’s Tiburtina bus station last week. A Roma woman took my portfolio-style wallet with about $500 in cash, my passport,...
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Kathryn Casey
- Jun 25, 2021
- 3 min
Diving Back into Italy!
Well, after 19 months away, I landed on Italian soil this morning. I must admit I wasn’t really looking forward to this trip because I’ve...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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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,...
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Kathryn Casey
- Dec 14, 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...
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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...
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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...
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Kathryn Casey
- Sep 5, 2018
- 2 min
Deviled Bologna
Check out this image! This is the shadow thrown by the statue of Neptune built to represent Pope Pius IV in Bologna’s Piazza del Nettuno....
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