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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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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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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