Our friend Maria Teresa in Milan gave us a pocket-sized guide to Turin, which includes information on museums and shopping but places...

Turin's Musei Reali, or Royal Museums, are a large complex of buildings and gardens that make up what I have read is the largest royal...

A couple of days ago I sent you all an email saying that if you signed up as Members you would get notifications whenever I did a new...

Thursday, because we expected it to be raining, we thought would be a good day for the Egyptian Museum, one of the top attractions in...

In Jackson Hole, fashion is not something that many people pay a lot of attention to--functionality and comfort are the highest values...

Our first day in the city was May first, which is International Labor Day in many countries including Italy, and therefore it's a...

I was at first a little unsure whether to say Turin or Torino, when speaking English. In Italian, while we're here, it goes without...

For our second (and last) morning in Milan, we visited the Ambrosian Library, a research and cultural center founded in 1607 that is one...

Sunday night we had dinner with friends who are semi-relatives -- the sister and brother-in-law of Alessandro, who visited us in Siena....

When we were in Siena at the museum of things that used to be part of the cathedral but were removed for one reason or another, we...

We got an early morning start Sunday, checking out of our Siena apartment at 7:30, catching the 8:10 bus to Florence, arriving with an...

On Saturday, since Steve had observed that the lines for the key local sights get very long quite early in the day, we got up early...

The Siena streets are currently the venue for an exhibition of the work of sculptor Alberto Inglesi, on view from March 23 to May 8. The...

Many times, streets in Siena and Florence remind me of De Chirico paintings of empty, desolate streets. No sidewalks or vegetation, doors...

The She-Wolf, Remus and Romulus A couple of years ago when we visited Siena I was surprised to see the Roman emblem of the she-wolf...

Thursday, April 25, was Liberation Day, a national holiday celebrating the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II. The date was...

In Siena there is almost nowhere for cars to park. On the narrow streets of the city, if there is a parked motor vehicle, it will almost...

On Tuesday morning we left our keys to the Florence apartment on the dining table, squeezed our luggage into the elevator, and took a...

One of the things that please me the most about these travels of ours is that we know people in France and Italy and England with whom we...

The Christmas when I was ten, some colleagues of my father's (in retrospect, probably quite religious Catholic ladies) gave me a lovely...