Travel to Puglia: Tip of Italy’s Heel
Great places to travel: If you’re traveling to Puglia , Salento may be one of the best regions of Italy you’ve never heard of Serene … Read more
Travel For Adventurous Women
Travel ideas, information and inspiration for women planning to travel to Italy.
Great places to travel: If you’re traveling to Puglia , Salento may be one of the best regions of Italy you’ve never heard of Serene … Read more
Hot chocolate in Italy is my favourite warm, Italian treat. It’s perfect for those cool winter days. In Italy, the time has come to relinquish … Read more
Dear Italy, I love you, but you need more wilderness. This is probably the West Virginian in me talking.
Forget the sweeping views of the Umbrian countryside, the exquisite architecture, and the inspired regional dishes. People flock to this decidedly chilly hill-town for one thing and one thing only: chocolate.
We give you license to eat Sicilian granita morning, noon and night.
Rome is an overwhelming city: layer on layer, history on history. To sort through it would take a lifetime and I’ve started too late. The … Read more
Sometimes there are just things, albeit unofficial, that you should just know. That’s why I’m telling you all about my non-medical travel tips for Italy…that … Read more
The first thing I think of when Italy comes to mind is food – well, food and wine. Our most recent trip to Cortona, Italy, proved to be more wonderful and delicious than I could have ever imagined. We stayed less than five minutes from the main village at the magnificent Villa Marsili. The close proximity to the rustic Italian village proved to be an advantage to our appetites, if a disadvantage to our waistlines.
Rome’s influence on literature has been perennial. From the time of Ovid and Virgil to the Anglo-Saxon influx of writers such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne and young John Keats, all the way up to the more recent time of Alberto Moravia and Carlo Emilio Gadda, Rome has captured the imagination and thoughts of many great writers.