The Best of Bari

The Best of Bari

During the past few years Puglia has become one of Italy’s touristic hotspots thanks to its delicious food, wines, and olive oil, multi-culture history (Greek, Roman, and Swabian), folk traditions like the pizzica (a frenzied local dance), beautiful white sandy...
A Decadent Tea For Two: Ritz Paris

A Decadent Tea For Two: Ritz Paris

For 120 years, The Ritz Paris has been ranked among the most luxurious hotels in the world. It has been featured in novels, plays, and movies…Mademoiselle Chanel called it home for 34 years…it’s simply legendary. Since its opening almost two years...
DON’T MISS ROME’S LASTEST ATTRACTION

DON’T MISS ROME’S LASTEST ATTRACTION

In keeping with the saying “Rome wasn’t built in a day”, Rome is like a layer cake with monuments and art works dating from every period of history from 753 BC, when according to more than legend the Eternal City was founded by King Romulus, to the present. After...
All Roads Lead to Rome

All Roads Lead to Rome

Italy’s national newspaper, La Repubblica, has published guidebooks about Italy’s many regions since 2003. Its first and only guidebook in English is Roma Maxima: Stories, Places, and Secrets, Guidebook to an Eternal City. The first guidebooks to Rome, written for the...

Breakfast in Guadalajara

Earlier this year I spent several days in the historically rich capital of Jalisco, but I arrived in the middle of a national holiday, which brought a traffic tsunami that began taking its toll on the long, loud, dusty drive in from the airport to my hotel in...