In 2010 Steve and I began this series of visits to European cities. The medical adventures I'd had in 2008 had proven more debilitating...

(An assortment of other things I intended to write about while I was away but didn't have time) We love the Basilica of Santa Maria...

(A series of other things I intended to write about while I was away but didn't have time to do) There are so many museums and other...

Grab Bag Part 3, Lots of Rain It rained for at least part of nearly every day during our stay, and sometimes it was torrential. We were...

(A series of other things I intended to write about while I was away but didn't have time to do) We had decided not to do much cooking...

(A series of other things I intended to write about while I was away but didn't have time to do) In last year's Rome stay, our second...

One day we had occasion to be out of our apartment for several hours while work was done there, and the agent suggested that la...

I find, going back into previous years' blogs, that each time we go to the Uffizi I have picked out one or two paintings that...

My brother Nelson and his wife Jane made their first-ever visit to Florence this weekend. They stayed at the Hotel Monna Lisa, where we...

One rainy day we went to the Medici Palace, also known as the Medici-Riccardi Palace or il Palazzo Medici Riccardi. It was designed by...

Some readers may remember that during our initial sojourn in Rome in the fall of 2010, I slipped on the stairs separating the downstairs...

We arrived in Florence a week ago in the evening, after an uneventful but still long and tiring three-leg trip from Jackson via Chicago...

Well, we're home--actually for over a week now. Our trip home last Wednesday, the 26th (original date), and Thursday, the 27th (actual...

While we were in Trastevere, one of our preferred places to walk was up the Gianicolo, or Janiculum Hill, named after the two-faced Roman...

My sister-in-law’s exact words a week ago were, “Any chance you can get some recipes of the more memorable meals?” She is aware that...

The apartment where we are spending the last nine days of our trip before we return home is just off the Via del Corso, the big, straight...

Here's a grab bag of things we ran across during our Trastevere tenancy: Locks: In Paris some panels of bridge railings are bedecked by...

In antiquity Roman bricks seem to have been of a size quite different from that of typical American bricks, for which the standard is 8"...

We have moved to our second apartment, near the Piazza del Popolo, just off the Via del Corso. More on that anon, but here's one picture...

One item on my quite short list of Attractions that I wanted to see on this trip was the museum of ancient Roman archaeology known as...