by Lucy Gordan | Jul 6, 2024 | Travel, Travel blog
Today, Rome’s Jewish population counts some 15,000 people and a dozen Orthodox synagogues. The liturgy of the largest and ornate Il Tempio Maggiore follows the Orthodox Italki rite as practiced by Italian Jews since early Roman times. In fact, Jews have lived in...
by Lucy Gordan | Apr 18, 2024 | Travel, Travel blog
On March 19 Sergio Mattarella, The President of Italy, inaugurated the new headquarters of the Foreign Press Association in what had been the Roman residence of former Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi. Some three weeks later the key speaker at the Foreign...
by Jan Ross | Oct 23, 2023 | Travel, Travel blog
My sister in law and I entered our wonderful hotel room at the luxurious Hyatt Virginia Beach and walked over to the beach view from the window. The curtain were closed so we opened them and our mouths literally dropped open at the fabulous view. We knew our room was...
by Scott W. Clemens | May 29, 2023 | Travel, Travel blog
Travel, even Epicurean travel, will inevitably lead you to some somber places. I have been to Normandy in search of Calvados and cheese only to find myself visiting World War II battlefields and cemeteries. I explored Manila and came upon another sobering military...
by Lucy Gordan | Apr 17, 2023 | Travel, Travel blog
On April 14th, in the late afternoon, the press office of the Vatican Museums sent out notice to Vatican-accredited journalists stating that again this year, for the tenth season, the Museums would be extending their hours on Friday and Saturday evenings until October...
by Lucy Gordan | Dec 27, 2021 | Travel, Travel blog
You are a “nose”; what exactly does that mean? “Nose” is a nickname for a perfume maker; a person gifted with a particularly developed sense of smell, who is capable of combining mentally different smells to create unique essences and...
by Lucy Gordan | Nov 1, 2021 | Travel, Travel blog
Naples is world famous for pizza, coffee, crèche artisans and music, both operatic at its magnificent 18th-century Teatro San Carlo and popular songs with lyrics in Neapolitan dialect sadly without a venue. That changed on October 15th when La Fondazione Trianon...
by Lucy Gordan | Sep 26, 2021 | Travel, Travel blog
Tucked away in a narrow inlet since ancient times, the small coastal town of Minori is located directly below Ravello, the more famous hill-top town beloved by Wagner, who wrote “Parsifal” there, and by many writers: Gide, E.M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence...
by Lucy Gordan | Jul 3, 2021 | Travel, Travel blog
Off-the-tourists’-beaten-track, the Aventine, one of Rome’s seven hills, is one of the Eternal City’s most peaceful, least commercial, and elegant residential neighborhoods, but nonetheless with several sights worth a visit. Last year 15 members of the Foreign Press...
by Lucy Gordan | Feb 6, 2021 | Travel, Travel blog
Two years ago and again last year the Director Eike Schmidt “invited” married couples from all over Italy to celebrate the wedding anniversary of Agnolo Doni and Maddelena Strozzi, “La Festa dei Doni”, on January 31 by visiting the Uffizi at half price. Last...
by Noreen Kompanik | Jan 22, 2021 | Contents, Travel
All-inclusive vacation stays were something I was never really interested in— especially when it comes to dining. I’m all about experiencing the food culture of a destination. But then, I experienced the all-inclusive dining plan at Cancun’s Grand Fiesta Americana...
by Lucy Gordan | Jan 21, 2021 | Travel, Travel blog
On January 17th Massimo Osanna, the former and still the interim Director General of Pompeii’s excavations until a new one is appointed, as well as the soon-to-be Director of all of Italy’s State Museums, was a guest on Sunday evening’s popular TV talk show “Che...
