On Board the Queen Mary 2

Florence: 1972

In 1972, I left Florence in tears. Forty-six years later, I am returning to live and…

Il Palio

The night before we were to leave Florence for our stay in Siena, I picked up a copy of The Florentine News, an English language newspaper in…

Food

How can you write about Italy and not write about food? How can you think about Italy and not think about food? And how can you live in Italy and not…

Truffle Hunting, Wine Tasting, and Olive Oil

Our friends Dick & Victoria Lister from San Antonio visited us in Siena. Dick & I…

Bon Voyage: We Begin Our Journey by Visiting Very Dear Friends

Gelato

Return to Florence

My mother’s parents were born in Italy and in 2008 my husband and I decided to take her there for her 80th birthday. We knew her physical limitations precluded independent travel, so we booked a guided tour and, together with my mother and our niece Kaylan (who came to assist with Mom), boarded…

Our Home

Our apartment building in Florence was built in the 1850s — and it is one of the newer buildings on the street. Many of the buildings on this…

London and Greenwich

Our first full day in London we took a boat down the Thames to Greenwich. The weather was perfect — in the high 70s…