Category archive - Italy

Umbria: Springtime and the Living is Easy

The springtime blossoms are spiraling through the air like snow flurries and my hay fever is going crazy, but right now I couldn’t care less:

I am too busy falling in love with Umbria.

It’s just so easy to. This tiny region in central Italy is often overlooked but if anyone knows how to pack a whole lot of goodness into one small region, it’s the Umbrians. So much that it will leave you wanting more.

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For the Love of Art

“A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.”  Michelangelo Buonarroti

After a week in Florence, gazing upon so much fabulous Renaissance art and architecture, my eyes were beginning to ache with the beauty of it all. Seriously, they really were.

Even if you fight against it, there is a point where it becomes easy to slide into a sort of nonchalance if your days are literally saturated with something you love this much…

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Would You Like Another Chianti…Wine Tasting in Tuscany

It is such stuff as dreams are made on: sipping Chianti wine, in Chianti.

Today, this is no dream. Although, it is decidedly dreamlike….a little too much Chianti, perhaps?

The Chianti wine region in Tuscany evokes ridiculously romantic images of miles of undulating green hills sprinkled with pristine vineyards, traditional stone farmhouses…and some of the finest wines in the world!

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For the Love of Travel (Oh, and I’m Off To Umbria!)

There’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you. Something I’ve implied, alluded to, and made suggestive comments about on this blog…but I’ve never actually said the words out loud.

We’ve known each other a while now. I think it is time you knew the truth, so here goes….

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Photo Essay: Remembering Venice

I’ve always been a romantic at heart. In Venice, I deliberately left my map behind in the hotel room and fell into the maze of streets and canals…espresso in one hand and camera in the other. Yes, definitely a precarious balancing act at times but, really…sometimes it’s difficult to decide which one takes priority.In this case, being mid-winter I needed both, but my camera won out in the end. I was almost instantly lost of course amongst the rustic, crumbling walls and surprising splashes of colour in this sinking city.
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