Twelve Days in Italy (“Pace e Bene”)
St. Frances of Assisi greeted his brothers with Pace e Bene. Peace and Be Well. Talking to you, my clients, during your travels, I hear you, […]
Letter from Rome
All over Italy, the swifts, swallows and martins fill the morning and evening skies with their melodious cries. It is spring in Italy and how absolutely […]
Memories and Holidays : The Presepio
Everyone who celebrates Christmas has Christmas memories. Mine go back more than 40 years and are nearly all memories in Rome. And most of them […]
Winter in Italy – Carnevale !
Rome has not the elaborate and extraordinary costumes and masks of Venice (we’ll post photographs from a prior trip in another blog) but this year […]
An Evening with Carlo Noro
Last week’s dinner organized by Slow Food here in Rome was among the best meals we have ever eaten anywhere. Both Carlo Noro’s remarks about […]
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 […]