After a minor hassle at the car rental counter in Venice’s Marco Polo Airport, I drove with my Stradale d’Italia Atlas away from the busy tourist town and up through the northern lakes of Italy; making a stop in Sirmione on Lake Garda for a lunch. My aim was to go on a scenic route to the […]
I had been to Sicily some years ago, but it didn’t “wow” me. We had visited Taormina and then travelled to Siracusa, Piazza Armerina, and Agrigento. Taormina, I recall, was a stunning and beautiful picturesque village with a Greek temple at the end of a delightful pedestrian shopping street with spectacular views across to the […]
When I travel to Rome, I remind myself each time how magical this city is by doing the same exact walk every time. It is really a walk of piazzas and fountains, of ancient monuments and baroque, and it starts in the Piazza della Minerva at the back of the Pantheon with Bernini’s Elephant (pictured) […]