I’m a fan of exploring outside the major cities. I find big cities to be more or less the same. There are exceptions and…
Ah Tuscany. Beautiful, hot, scenic, hot, lovely, hot Tuscany. Yes, Italy is experiencing its first heat wave of summer. A sticky, sweaty, police-patrolling-the-fountains-in-case-people-jump-in kind…
How to guarantee strange looks from every person standing near you: Take a flowery, china teacup, set it down on a 2000-year old ruin,…
A few of the places I’ve taken my teacup may have not been recognisable to some of you. But this one will be. After all,…
While Tuscany and Umbria are the go-to regions when touring Italy, Le Marche is touted as an equally beautiful but less populated alternative. With…
Italy isn’t a big country. You can drive from one side to the other in about two and a half hours. So it didn’t…
What little knowledge I had of Rome before arriving can be credited to Dan Brown. And yes I know it’s fiction, but Angels and…
By the time I arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, nearly three weeks after leaving Vancouver’s Pacific Station, I had spent four and a half days…