What’s New for 2012 ?
We plan trips that we feel are the most interesting independent adventures in Italy. Rome, Florence and Venice are the cities that you continue to […]
La Passione ! (A Roman Terrace Garden)
Take one reasonably nice but uninspired Roman terrace, with ten years of accumulated, cluttered pots and four untended olive trees. Add plants – principally geraniums […]
Where Else ?
This city center, four-star, family-run Florence hotel is my children’s favorite. Where else, when there are children guests at Christmas-time, does the owner leave on […]
Buona Befana !
Florence’s Befana (or Epiphany Witch) spends Epiphany delivering toys and sweets to patients and staff at Meyer children’s hospital just outside of town, and then […]