Volpetti, a Roman Temple of Gastronomy
The food in Rome is a slice of this, that and heaven Rome has St. Peters, the Vatican Museums and the Borghese Gallery. But it … Read more
Travel For Adventurous Women
The food in Rome is a slice of this, that and heaven Rome has St. Peters, the Vatican Museums and the Borghese Gallery. But it … Read more
Visiting Venice: old friends reunite to experience a favorite city’s sights, sounds and flavors side by side My friend Elizabeth flew into Venice from Paris … Read more
Visiting Israel and climbing Masada The light from our Bedouin guide’s fire is burning low and I can hear the gurgling sound of his … Read more
My first visit to the city of Seville was not as a tourist, but as a resident of a nearby town. As a twenty year old Spanish student at a UK university, I was required to spend a year in Spain or South America, fine-tuning my language skills. I applied to work as an English Language Assistant in a Spanish secondary school, ticking ‘Andalucía’ as my ideal destination, hoping that I’d be placed in a quaint coastal town offering plenty of tanning opportunities (my cultural sensibilities were highly developed back then, as you can tell).
Thanks to the recent global popularity of tapas, foreign conceptions of Spanish cuisine are no longer restricted to that oh-so-famous Valencian rice dish, paella. But where does this custom of eating mini morsels stem from?
Raise your glass to Mendoza, one of the world’s great wine capitals After living for several years in Mendoza, Argentina, I am still enamored with … Read more
A visit to Cala Gonone, Sardinia If anyone would have told me a few years ago that I’d be taking a trip to Sardinia (Sardegna), I’d … Read more
Sites and experiences in Melbourne that are free Melbourne, the capital of Victoria in Australia, was voted the most livable city in the world for the second year … Read more
Take two ex-Italy dwellers who have a healthy curiosity about regional cuisine, who happen – no surprise – to be major Italian food lovers. Toss in a great itinerary in Italy’s Piedmont region, add a very compact European car, and you have the makings for a pretty decent road trip.