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 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...
by Lucy Gordan | Oct 14, 2020 | Travel, Travel blog
Born on September24, 1954 at Alba, the small city in Piemonte famous for wine and truffles, Oscar Farinetti is THE maverick entrepreneur of Italian food and cuisine. In January 2007 he founded “EATALY” opening in an abandoned Carpano Vermouth factory in Turin’s...
by Scott W. Clemens | Aug 30, 2020 | Travel, Travel blog
The Lake District has inspired some of England’s most beloved poets and authors, including William Wordsworth and Beatrix Potter. I never imagined that world still existed in the 21st century, but I found it in Rothswaite in Borrowdale, at Hazel Bank Country House...
by Lucy Gordan | Jul 28, 2020 | Travel, Travel blog
For several years now I’ve received the annual online guide from the non-profit Association Ospitalità Religiosa Italiana (Italian Religious Hospitality) (www.ospitalitareligiosa.it), headquartered at Via Molina 10 in Varese, a city in Lombardy northwest of Milan,...
by Lucy Gordan | Mar 6, 2020 | Travel, Travel blog
This year the world is celebrating the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death with exhibitions in London at both the National Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, in Paris at the Louvre, and in Washington D.C. at the National Gallery. However, the mega-show, to...
by Lucy Gordan | Feb 12, 2020 | Travel, Travel blog
Italy’s major cities count at least one world-famous piazza. From south to north: Naples: Piazza del Plebiscito; Rome: Piazza Navona, Piazza Barberini, and Piazza di Spagna; Florence: Piazza della Signoria; Bologna: Piazza Maggiore; Genoa: Piazza de Ferrari; Turin:...
by Lucy Gordan | Dec 31, 2019 | Travel, Travel blog
There seems to be differences of opinion about when and to whom the well-traveled American journalist/humorist Robert Benchley sent his telegram on his first visit to Venice: “Streets full of water. Please Advise.” The most credible attribution is that it was a gag...
by Lucy Gordan | Dec 8, 2019 | Travel, Travel blog
In July 2018 I published “The Best of Bari”. Six months later a new museum, known by its acronym “Munbam” which stands for the Children’s (Bambini) Museum of St. Nicholas, opened in the Norman Swabian Castle. Much to the joy of all three generations of my family on a...
by Jan Ross | Nov 21, 2019 | Travel, Travel blog
I was aware of how hot it was going to be in Memphis and had prepared myself accordingly when I visited the first time. I had visited a few years previously with two girlfriends and when we stepped out of our car, I was shocked at the thick, hot, damp weather that...
by Jan Ross | Oct 30, 2019 | Travel, Travel blog
We had big plans for our few days in the birthplace of Rock N Roll – Memphis – but two of those plans included tours of Graceland and the area of Beale Street. My husband was the instigator of this trip after indicating he would love to see Graceland, so...
