Halcyon Moments

On the third day of our weekend getaway in the Maremma, my friends opted to skip the beach and instead visit the town of Massa Marittima on ...

If you are a regular reader of The New York Times, you might recall this article from April, 2015, about a family in Lecce, Italy, who disco...

After my stay in Bari, I decided to go further south to reach Lecce.  If you look at a map of Italy, you will see that Lecce is located in t...

From the city of Bari, it is easy to visit both Matera and Alberobello.  I like having a guide at historical sites, so I searched online and...

With rain in the forecast and no activities in Florence, I decided to chase the sun and head south, all the way to the "heel of the boo...

In previous posts, I explained the lengthy process to apply for a visa and then obtain a "permesso di soggiorno", or permission to...

Readers of my blog have asked me to include some photos of myself!  Well, this isn't all that easy since I am often exploring on my own....

I arrived in Pesaro in time for lunch.  Pesaro is in the region of Le Marche on the eastern coast of Italy, along the Adriatic Sea.  It...

The soap of Acqua dell'Elba perfectly matches the color of the water surrounding the island.  This is a grand design of marketing g...

While in the Maremma, we could see the distant outline of Isola d'Elba, an island I was interested in visiting. Back in Florence, I rea...