Italy

Summer Films in Bologna

Every summer, Bologna hosts one of the largest summer film festivals in the world. Called, Il Cinema Ritrovato, it…

The Mont Blanc Experience

We wanted a sneak peak of Geneva. Rachna had been there when she was 11, and with Viraj now at 11, we wanted to…

Shot on iPhone 6 : Zooming Out and In

The Ignorance of Mass Tourism

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” — Paul Theroux

Itinerary for Traveling to Italy

Over 13 days in August of 2013, we drove through Italy covering ground from Venice to Rome, traveling…

Venezia at Dawn

For all the bustling and bursting at the seams that Venice experiences throughout the hot and muggy day and long into the warm yet…

Medieval Manhattan

Between the 12th and 14th centuries, the town of San Gimignano in Tuscany, Italy, underwent a Manhattan-style skyscraper…

Always look back

A long time ago, I heard a photographer quip that whenever you are standing at a sunrise photo-op, jostling for space amongst…

Luck

Some of the best images in my collection — and I am betting this is true of every photographer — are due to sheer luck. Not to say that we don’t plan…

The case for a little weight

The best guidebooks on Europe stress traveling light as the only way to enjoy Europe.