How to Spend a Weekend in Padua (and Why I’m Dying to Move Back to Italy!)
If you saw my Postcard of the Week on Monday then you’ll already know that I spent last weekend sauntering around the Italian city of Padua (Padova in Italian). […]
Postcard of the Week: Padua, Italy
After almost a year without visiting Italy, last weekend I found myself back in my favourite country, in the charming city of Padua. I was one […]
Postcard of the Week: The Spanish Steps, Rome
Rome. It was the city of Rome that I visited aged 14 on my first ever trip to Italy, a country I’d later move to on three separate occasions […]
Night Trains: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
You don’t come across too many night trains any more – they’re all going bust due to budget airlines and everyone’s desperation to get to their destination as fast […]
Postcard of the Week: Antique postcards of the Ligurian Coast
Last week I wrote about the antique postcards of Genoa that my dear friend Annalisa showed to me (check out her blog at Viaggio Vagando). She also showed me these […]
Postcard of the Week: Antique postcards of Genoa
A good friend of mine Annalisa (who blogs at Viaggio Vagando) comes from Genoa, a city on the north-west coast of Italy, very close to the Côte d’Azur in France. […]
The incredible Inspector Montalbano returns to the BBC this autumn
“Montalbano sono!” One of my favourite phrases in the Italian language. I am very pleased to have just found out that Inspector Montalbano, a TV series about a Sicilian […]
Instagramming my travels from April – June 2013
Back in April I posted a summary of my travels over January, February and March 2013, as seen through the eyes of my Instagram account (you can find me […]
The Well-Travelled Postcard 