Living and working in Italy as an English teacher, many of my students and friends were from the Italian region of Puglia. During our conversational English lessons, they would search ...
Assisi had been on my wish-list for many years, in part because of its obvious beauty and charm, and in part, because Assisi was the home of St. Francis and ...
One of the habits I’ve adopted in this strange period we are living through is daily mediations through an app called Insight Timer. I was perplexed a few days ago ...
Author’s note: I’ve written this article with an optimistic heart that international travel will be viable in the not-too-distant future. Please take my recommendations with that in mind, as the ...
Today, on the first day of spring, Florence got its snow. Tuscany is not a region of Italy where snow falls very often, so the flurry of white flakes has ...
I must admit, as far as travel experiences go, visiting the Colosseum never ranked highly on my list of favorites. Until recently, that is. The mass confusion entering the ...
Big cities can be quite a puzzle to get to know, and Rome is no exception. Even tougher still, Rome’s huge tourism economy makes it tricky to discover how to ...
As the host of what is considered by many to be the oldest university in the western world, Bologna has been a second home for young people from across Europe ...
April 25 is known in Italy as the Anniversario della Liberazione d’Italia, or the Anniversario della Resistenza. It was during these last weeks of April, 71 years ago, that one ...
Working as an on-site program coordinator in Italy for CISabroad, I have a steep learning curve, but I’m loving the work, especially learning and sharing my newly acquired travel tips ...
After spending most of the last five years of my life in Bologna, Italy, the day after Valentine’s Day will never be the same. With the same pioneering, rule-breaking ...
This photo is perhaps the most “illustrious” of my “instants” so far. The photo isn’t meant to demonstrate fabulous composition, color, movement, etc. The photo taking is normal, but the ...
