Blog Day: My favourite Italy blogs
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Being a full time blogger means not just writing blogs, but keeping on top of the ones everyone else writes. For work I have to read everything people write about Tuscany, but sometimes my searches or other people’s links lead me to bloggers located in other parts of Italy. Being on twitter is also a great way to meet and dialogue with other bloggers and to discover blogs and news I’d have never found without the help of social networks!
Today, August 31st, is Blog Day, and on this day we’re supposed to name 5 blogs that we recently discovered or that might be a little outside of our usual reading material. I don’t know how I am going to narrow this down to only 5 blogs. Just this past month – despite being on holiday for 2 weeks of it – I have “digitally met” a world-wide full-time blogger and a sicilian dweller who deserve a mention… but this post must also mention some of my perennial favourites. So here goes, in no particular order.
Italy blogs
Italytutto: For her, every day is blog day. I love the weekly roundup of best blog posts about Italy; in fact this is one of my favourite sources for finding more reading material.
My new Sicilian correspondant, Jann, writes Baroquesicily.com – don’t miss her hilarious post about the recent trend of Sicilians wearing speedos at the beach.
What would I do without Gloria “@casinadirosa” who writes At Home in Tuscany? I think nobody would retweet my @arttrav and @tuscanyart tweets if she didn’t do it first!
James of Wandering Italy Blog has a quick and dry sense of humour and I usually agree with all his observations. Recent posts are mostly about food but sometimes he weighs in on Italy’s absurdities and that’s when I love him most.
Since there are not enough art history blogs out there, let’s toss in “M” of Alberti’s Window – not always about Italian art, but sometimes it is. In the same breath, the newish “Three Pipe Problem” blog by H. Hiyazi also concentrates on some great italian art.
And two more special mentions
Audrey of uncorneredmarket is a world traveller who is planning a return trip to Tuscany – that’s how we got in touch last week and I’m enjoying reading something a little different in her posts about South America and Asia.
Finally, for blog day I want to thank Jessie of Wandering Educators for support and concrete tips last year when I decided to re-launch arttrav “alla grande”!
