Travel

“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue”.  It was the first piece of poetry I ever memorized.   I was five years old and in Mrs. Lowe’s kindergarten class in Geneva, Florida.  Christopher Columbus is the first historical figure I …

When I  made my first poorly-planned and short-lived attempt at the age of 26 to live in Venice in the early 1990s, I thought of it as the ultimate place of art and artifice. I imagined that by traveling to …

Like any good college graduate, I’m intimately – and painfully – familiar with Jägermeister, that destructive German digestif that left so many of us hating the world the next morning, and with its bottle that strangely features a stag with …

Nei paradisi del bike e del trek, tante sono le proposte per l’estate 2013 tra boschi, pascoli, borghi, laghi e sentieri, passando per la neonata “scuola del cammino”.   Cinque milioni di alberi, 17 mila ettari di verde, di cui …

I always see three little letters on Italian foods – both here and in Italy – and the ones that have them are always significantly more expensive than the ones that don’t.  I figured these initials were similar to the …

I left my hotel at 7am and walked to the SITA bus stop ready for a day on the road.  I’d heard about the narrow, windy mountain roads on the Amalfi Coast but thought everyone was probably just exaggerating when …

Due momenti molto suggestivi hanno caratterizzato quest’anno, in Trentino, il X Forum Green-accord per la Salvaguardia del Creato: il primo si è svolto ad Arte Sella, precisamente a Malga Costa, dove sono stati inaugurati i lavori con una conferenza dello …

Who can resist Italy in September? In the mood for long city saunters, shopping and sidewalk cafés? How about learning experiences that include actually participating in grape and olive harvests? What about taking scenic bike or Vespa tours through rolling …

When part of the Biblioteca Marciana, across the piazzetta from the Doge’s Palace, collapsed during its construction in 1538 its architect, the eminent Jacopo Sansovino, was immediately thrown into jail. A group of Sansovino’s influential friends, including the great Titian, …

Fall is the perfect time to sip your way through Italy. Many choices are available from week-long tours to day-trip jaunts from Florence, Milan or Rome out into the surrounding wine regions.   For example, if you want to spend …