Food Round-Up: Italy

Mangia bene, ridi spesso, ama molto - eat well, laugh often, love a lot. It's a great motto for any vacation, especially one in Italy. E...

Venice

I was prepared to either love Venice (a lot of people whom I really like liked it) or hate it (it seemed logical to suppose a touristy, expe...

Tuscany

Has anyone else ever read a book/watched a movie and absolutely wanted to go to the place described? There are so many inspirations behind m...

Cinque Terre

The Cinque Terre - five lands - is on the northern coast of Italy, on the French Riviera. I was told the weather between this and the Amalfi...

The Amalfi Coast

As I've mentioned before , planned sightseeing isn't really my thing. When I made my bookings, I decided to reward myself with inter...

Vatican City

If Rome's like Mumbai commuter traffic on a weekday morning, Vatican City's the Kumbh mela. The sheer magnitude of people made me lo...

Rome

The first thing I learned in Rome was that developing-nation smugness ('Ah, you think Toronto has traffic jams, that's cute.') i...