Summertime in Italy Lovely Lakes & Limoncello Summer 2022 Caldo, piccante, bollente. The words may look and even sound better in Italian, but when it comes to summer in Italy, there is only one way to describe the weather; hot, … Continue reading
If you are visiting Rome in June or July I strongly suggest you take time to enjoy their famous summer festival named Lungo il Tevere, which translates into “Along the Tiber” in Italian. It is a summer–long festival along the … Continue reading
It is such a shame that so many people rush, for example, from Rome to Florence, and then over to Venice, without stopping to experience a day, or even an afternoon, in the life of the wonderful small medieval Tuscan towns … Continue reading
I absolutely love Matera, as it is one of my favorite places in Italy and covers one third of my Italian heritage. Matera is in the Basilicata region in southern Italy, and is one of the oldest continually inhabited settlements … Continue reading
In need of a little pick me up? Aren’t we all? While we certainly can’t bury our heads in the sand and ignore the problems of the world, we don’t have to constantly focus on the negative. Wouldn’t it be … Continue reading