For this Photo of the Week you get a special treat…many photos because I couldn’t choose just one! I recently spent 4 days in the Milan area traveling with a local friend.  This part of Northern Italy was new to me.  We traveled around Piacenza, Lake Le Garda, and Milan – a great mixture of [...]

If you know these food etiquette rules you’ll start to fit in as if you were an Italian; ok that may be a bit much, but at least you won’t stick out as a tourist as much. Throw around a Ciao and Gazzie mille and you will be even more convincing.

Pantheon in a Glass – Rome, Italy    |   Purchase For all of you wine lovers out there, this one’s for you.  This week I purchased my ticket to Italy for New Years, so in honor of my upcoming trip, I thought I’d pull out one of my favorite Italy photos. This picture came about when [...]

Balancing Act – Rome, Italy I don’t know how it happened, but I’ve been transformed into a football fan.  Yes, that’s right, I said football, not soccer; just to prove how authentic the transformation is.   With the World Cup championship coming up this weekend, I felt like I better give this new love of mine [...]

View  Italy Photography View Rome Photography Italy makes it into my travel ‘record book’ – it is the country in which I’ve stayed the longest amount of consecutive time. I arrived in to this pasta haven at the end of April – so that makes 2 months in Italy. I had grand expectations of Italy [...]

View Rome Photography  View snapshots of Rome and Siena snapshots  Over the 6 days Micah and I were in Rome, we realized that we had a lot of in common…we liked to see the sites, but we liked to see a different side of the sites – and we both loved to people watch. Ok [...]

Photo: Flag for Peace (Pace in Italian) Displayed at the protests View Rome Photography  View snapshots of the Protests and the Boosh Visit  Nine months out of the country. Nine months of not having to deal directly with American politics. Nine months of questions from foreigners about the war, our president, the next campaign, Hilary, [...]

View Slide Show of Rome’s Dirty Little Secret below We all have them…secrets…sometimes small, sometimes big, sometimes innocent and sometimes dirty…and Rome is no exception. If you’ve spent time traveling around the city of Rome then no doubt you’ve been to the main sites – along with thousands of other tourists. You went to the [...]