The Amphitheater Rome is like a lasagna, they say; layers of history, stacked atop one another to form one great, big messy, delicious culture. From the Etruscans, to the the myth of Romulus and his founding of the Kingdom of Rome to the Roman Empire and on and on. One civilization always built on the […]
Just off the train in Florence, from the relative quiet of the Cinque Terre in the north where we had either walked or taken the train, we waited patiently for a bus to take us to the neighborhood we’d call home for a few days. Finally, we hopped aboard. I had my €3 ready and […]
Sometimes you just get lucky. Sitting at dinner at the soon-to-be famous Old School restaurant and bar in Riomagiorre, one of the five communities in Italy’s Cinque Terre National Park, I noticed people spreading flowers on the steps of the San Giovanni Battista (St.John the Baptist ) church and placing candles along the wall overlooking […]