What brought me to beautiful Siena? It couldn’t have been the famous Palio horse race. I had missed that by about a week. It probably wasn’t the magnificent cathedral, though its Beetlejuice Gothic-style stripes were pretty interesting (if a bit imposing for a religious site). Maybe it was the unique shell-shaped [...]
Florence is a beautiful city, and one steeped in history. It has boasted an impressive list of notable residents for hundreds of years: Salvatore Ferragamo, Dante, Galileo, Machiavelli, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. But really, besides the names of the Ninja Turtles, the foundations of the modern Italian language, and some of the [...]
Is there any image more evocative of la dolce vita of Italy than licking a cone of delicious gelato? Honestly, I’m not sure there is. I was lucky enough to spend nine weeks traveling all around Italy this past summer, and I had more than my fair share of gelato. 45 different gelaterie, 102 scoops [...]