When we started doing these Italian (and some French and English) sojourns, in 2010, it was twelve years ago last spring. As the years go...

This is not a new subject for me or for most people who have spent any time at all in Rome, but the paving stones known as San Pietrini –...

Here in Trastevere, we frequently traverse the Piazza Sant’ Egidio and pass the nearby church of Sant’Egidio, and although I think we...

As I have written, both in a post three years ago and in my recent email letting folks know that I was about to restart this blog, I...

The apartment we have rented via VRBO (the site we have used for the past 13 years, very successfully and happily) is the first of two...

Steve and I are in Rome. It's been a long time since we last ventured outside of the U.S.--very nearly three years. Same reasons that a...

Last week we saw five plays, this week we saw four. It would probably be possible to squeeze in one more tomorrow, but Steve has begun to...

Yesterday a section of road across the street from our apartment was dug up, and today it was put back together. The workmen, who might...

Monday we met our friend Monica at the National Gallery to see the show of Gauguin Portraits there, which was in Ottawa earlier this...

In the first week of this two-week theatre-oriented trip to London, we've been to five plays. This coming week we expect to see three...

When we lived in London it always struck us with a degree of surprise to find roses blooming in November, or spring bulb flowers...

We decided to try a different apartment this fall from the one we’ve rented for the past three years. It’s only a six-minute walk from...

We arrived in London on Sunday evening and took a cab to our VRBO flat in South Kensington. (We have, that is to say Steve has, been...

When I mentioned that we had got into the Rembrandt show at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, I said I'd report on it later. Well, I didn't...

From Steve's point of view, the food and wine are among the main reasons we come to Europe. I also love the food and wine but sometimes...

Steve remarked, while we were at the Rijksmuseum, that it was the first time in ages that he was in a room with three other people as...

While Steve and I were in Amsterdam (we traveled home all day today and will collapse into bed fairly soon), getting around was entirely...

Given our stroke of luck in finding out how to get tickets for the Van Gogh Museum when we had failed to order them in advance, we were...

We spent most of Monday in transit--getting up early to finish packing and check out of the apartment, taxi to the airport and then wait...

Today is our last day in Turin and our cultural expedition of the day was to the Mole Antonelliana. Mole is pronounced in two syllables,...