Guest post by Robert of Neon Poisoning, who is looking for weird things to see in Florence.

A look back at 2009 through arttrav - how the most significant moments in my year turned into posts.
We started off 2009 with a guided visit of Lucca in early January by new friends Fabio …

The contest ended Sept 27th with a few good entries sent in just under the line. We got essays from four countries and contributions in all categories except “Art… that Travels!”. I guess that one …

This is a guest post by Lillie from Wandering Educators. She is seven years old and I was so impressed by her book reviews that I asked her for an interview.
This photo shows Lillie in her kayak.

This summer I had the pleasure to meet Judy Witts Francini, known to all of us in the blogosphere as Divina Cucina - whose business card reads “food writer - market maven - cooking teacher …

Friends of mine put me in touch with this talented young artist whose work is featured right now in the famous piazza dell’ampiteatro in Lucca at Cartasia 2010. Thus I had the privilege of asking …

Pat Byrne of Kids Europe’s Italy Discovery Journal is not a guidebook to Florence, Rome, and Venice. It’s an activity book dedicated to children traveling in all of Italy (with some focus on the major …

This summer I have been experimenting with social networks and I must say I’m very happy. Now I have lots of new “friends” on FB, twitter, google… (insert cheesy smiley here).
But seriously. Social media are …

Just posted… an interview with yours truly on Wandering Educators! Jessie Voigts asked me some great questions about arttrav and traveling in general. In particular she asks: “How can travelers best prepare for such a …

Studying abroad can be an exciting time for students.  Intercultural experiences are exciting, sometimes frightening, transformative, and often life-changing.  You are now living in a new culture, with norms that are entirely different from what …

With warm thanks to Betty and Salvatore at the Azienda Agricola La Torraccia (Regello, FI).
And to Toni Lydecker for organizing our fun outing in the context of research for her next book. (Her new book, …

A guru of social networking, Laura De Benedetto has her finger on the pulse of Florence’s most active residents through FlorenceIN, the face-to-face network that she succesfully created last year. With her own inexhaustible energy …