On Sunday we saw the Verrocchio exhibition at the Strozzi Palace, followed on Tuesday by the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, and on...

One of the paintings that caught my eye during this trip's visit to the Uffizi galleries was a long horizontal painting (oil on panel, 75...

I still can never get enough of the tiny vehicles that are in common use in Italian towns and cities, for personal transportation as well...

On November 6, 1966, the River Arno flooded Florence, and enormous damage was done to the city: 101 people died, and vast numbers of...

We visited the Strozzi Palace museum on Sunday, to see an exhibition of the work of Verrocchio, the master under whom Leonardo da Vinci...

Over the years I've had several operations on my right foot to correct adverse consequences of a previous surgery, so it's important to...

Here are some images from our visit in 2015.

This trip, as on many others, we continue to work on our Italian, and for a fifth time we are at the Florence branch of la Scuola...

Some of you may recall the extremely expensive and painful-looking sandals that I wrote about a few years ago from a prior trip to...

The first afternoon of our stay in Florence, not yet adjusted to the time but needing to get out and start doing things, we went for a...

It's Friday evening as I write, and we've been on the ground in Italy since about this time on Wednesday. That is not to say that our...

In anticipation of this spring's trip to Italy, I've replaced the home page photos from last year. In 2018, we were in Paris in the...

Once again Steve and I are preparing for another off-season visit to a place where we can exercise our brains by working on a foreign...

Monday: Off to a slow start, catching up on sleep. (Some of the neighbors in the building caroused noisily from 3 to 5 a.m. the night...

Sunday I went out by myself for the day, leaving Steve to make as few demands as possible on his healing knee. I busied myself with...