Category: -Italy

  • The Matador Network wrote a post recently about farmers markets around the world, from Dane County Farmer's Market in Seattle to Mercado Central in Valencia, Spain, and  Rialto Markets in Venice, Italy.  I'm a fan of food browsing. I love walking up and down every aisle of shops in other countries to check out unfamiliar…

  • First things first regarding driving yourself around Italy. If you want to ask a non-English-speaking Italian where the downtown is, you're going to have to pronounce "città centro" (city center) as: chee-TAH    CHEN-tro  I figured that pronunciation out, oh, about a thousand quizzical looks too late.  I thought driving in Italy on my own…

  •   While I gear up to write about my recent trip to Italy – Emilia Romagna specifically – I offer a roundup of solo travel stories by others.    From an Australian website called "Starts at 60," a solo female traveller's (spelled the British way) checklist for traveling alone. The story addresses issues such as…