I was searching through some photos from field trips that I led for UGA in 2008 in a bout of nostalgia brought on by an upcoming visit from my friends Roy and Terry who were …

It’s the first weekend in August, which means it’s bollino nero because of the esodo, and if you don’t do a partenza intelligente, you’re screwed. Have no idea what I’m talking about? You need an …

I am a huge fan of these portapotties by Sebach. There’s one on the highway between Firenze Sud and Firenze Certosa, but we are never going slow enough to photograph it, and it’s …

Alessi: perhaps the most famous brand of Italian design, as well as one of the more accessible (you can own a little piece of modernity for 25 euros).

An exhibit at the International Design …

Travel bloggers of the future are being formed thanks to Context Travel’s Foundation for Sustainable Travel and the St. Hope Public Schools, in Sacramento, California, who have just announced the winners of their …

The Italian hand gesture is a subject of amusement and confusion for the foreign traveller, both now and in the past. For this reason, there is an old dictionary of hand gestures produced in Naples …

One of Venice’s most important landmarks, the Bridge of Sighs, has been hijacked by advertising that completely covers the east side of the Palazzo Ducale and its adjacent building, presumably in order to protect and …

The Giorgio Cini Foundation, on the Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, wishes to highlight its significant heritage by putting on an exhibit of the best of its collection of 15th- and 16th-century rare, …

I am going to Venice for a conference in the week after Easter. It’s the annual Renaissance Society of America conference that, every three years, is held in a European city. They just had to …

On a whim, I accepted an invitation posted to the members of De Gustibus, a local enogastronomical society, for a “ski weekend” in the Dolomite mountains near Bressanone/ Brixen, in a small town called St. …

The 2010 Festival dei Fiori (March 12-15) promises to be a beautiful and royal event. Held at the Venaria Reale near Torino, Italy and Europe’s best flower designers go head to head in competition. You …

Lately I’ve noticed a trend that I like very much: the bookshop/library, contemporary design, cafe/restaurant. I mean really, this combines everything I love best! This week I had the fortune of finding two examples of …