On February 16th, 2012, BUS FROM ROME TO PESCARA…
…took me from Tiburtina station (after landing at Fiumicino – followed by a quick detour to Piramide where I met with friends and collaborators about the upcoming Roma Mangia…
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On September 5th, 2011, NIGHTLIFE IN OSTUNI…
…which seems to be a very tranquil town during the day, surprised me last night when the very designy chic bars and lounges spilled out on the the…
On September 4th, 2011, TRULLI THEN OSTUNI…
…was the order of the day, as I finally departed Lecce, continuing my Puglian journeys gradually making my way west then north on the slow side roads through…
On September 1st, 2011, A MASSERIA (WITH FRANTOIO IPOGEO)…
…is something I have had an intense architectural crush on since first reading about them last year (a fortified farmhouse unique to Puglia, often with a series of…
On August 29th, 2011, NARDO’…
…with a dreamy baroque historic center where old men bike around aimlessly and gather on benches with friends you imagine they grew up with on that same block,…
On August 28th, 2011, B&B AT PORTO SELVAGGIO…
…the beautiful beach cove, I had read about and dreamt about while researching Puglia last winter, which is isolated in a nature preserve just north of Galipoli and…
On August 25th, 2011, PALAZZO SAN GIORGIO IN GENOVA…
…the Italian town I have been curious about and yet to visit was conveniently on my way from Aix-en-Provence to Brindisi, so after a long windy scenic train…
On July 16th, 2011, ITALIAN DEBT…
…and financial woes are making international news, with austerity plans in the works (here is an Guardian editorial by my political hero from Puglia, Nichi Vendola), and this…
On July 7th, 2011, WALKING AND BIKING THROUGH CLIFFS…
…along the stunning coastline of the Italian Riviera in Levanto just north of Cinque Terre is made possible thanks to the re-routing of the train line inland, which made…
On July 6th, 2011, CINQUE TERRE…
…or ‘five lands’ are the colorful Ligurian villages hugging the rugged coastline of the Italian Riviera which have maintained their precious antiquated state, partially due to their inaccessibility…
On July 5th, 2011, LEVANTO…
…is the Ligurian beach town where my friend, and before that her her mother, grew up spending summers in a cute yellow house on the main street of…
On June 19th, 2011, CAPRAROLA…
…is the most idyllic and purely conceived of hilltop Lazian towns which we have made a Sunday pilgrimage to, around Monti Cimini and dominated by the great pentagonal…
On April 15th, 2011, ABAZIA DI MONTE OLIVETO MAGGIORE…
…is the hilltop Asciano-adjacent Tuscan Benedictine monastery dating from 1313 we are visiting today, which features a very cool 1553 fish pond that would feed the monks during…
On April 14th, 2011, TUSCANY:…
…love it and actually lived in a farmhouse there from 1993-94 – but the local authorities exert such tight control on new development and changes to existing structures…
On March 24th, 2011, NAPOLI STREET FLOWERS AND STREET TRASH…
…I see side by side here in this wild majestic city which has been suffering from waste management issues for years.
On March 19th, 2011, CASTEL SAN PIETRO…
…is the tiny hill town an hour north of Rome near Poggio Mirteto where I am lucky enough to be at a friend’s place for the weekend –…
On January 29th, 2011, BOLOGNESE ARCADES…
…are the unique pleasures of this city which you can traverse from one side to the other within the sheltering vaults and alongside the rhythm of the columns…
On January 3rd, 2011, THE MAREMMAN SHEEP…
…were looking at us as we were attempting to visit the Niki de Saint Phalle sculpture park of Il Giardino dei Tarochi which was closed, but the sheep…
On January 2nd, 2011, CAPALBIO…
…like all great medieval Italian hilltowns (we are in the Maremma of Southwest Tuscany), provides that brilliant vivid contrast between the feeling of dense urbanism on the inside,…
On January 1st, 2011, ON THE BEACHES OF CAPALBIO…
…just South of the Lago di Burano wildlife preserve, is where we have come this groggy afternoon to honor this first day of 2011, recover from a late…