Discovering yet another rooftop with a view in Florence is my own personal holy grail. I adore any view overlooking my city and the one that I most recently discovered happens to be on top of boutique hotel Antica Torre di Via Tornabuoni - one of the famous ‘tower houses’ in the city. According to their site “ It … Continue reading »
When writing this post, I still really can’t believe it’s took me this long to visit Stibbert Museum but I admit it just wasn’t a priority. Always left for another day, I thought how interesting could weapons and armory be? As usual this January 2013 in Florence, Italy. The weather is absolutely bipolar, it’s going … Continue reading »
Last week I got the great opportunity to tour the incredible Villa di Maiano and {Fattoria di Maiano – post coming later}. This historical gem is where several scenes were filmed from James Ivory’s “Room with a View”, the director himself fell in love with this location. The views from this prime spot in the Tuscan … Continue reading »
This weekend I had the chance to check out some really interesting conferences and discussions regarding cultural heritage & cooperative tourism in Florence and Tuscany. Living in a city as historical as Florence, you can’t help but be touched by the effect that our cities history, culture and art has on tourists and there is … Continue reading »
Pisa oh Pisa, a city so close to the one that I live in – Florence yet one that I have never taken the time to explore or learn much about. Since I will have the pleasure to do so next week, I thought it would be fun to write about common misconceptions and touch … Continue reading »
Carcassonne in my eyes, is the real-life version of a fairy-tale – according to wikipedia: Carcassonne is a fortified French town in the Aude department, of which it is the prefecture, in the former province of Languedoc. It is divided into the fortified Cité de Carcassonne Carcassone was founded by the Visigoths in the fifth century, though … Continue reading »
This past weekend we had to embrace our boring and domestic side which included moving furniture, namely our old Soviet-era masterpiece outside and move our new ikea Ektorp one from a friend’s house which meant Sunday I was as sore as an Olympic gymnast. Overall it really wasn’t difficult to do at all, just needed … Continue reading »
So normally I don’t write about places I visit but seriously. I have deduced that it really should be the FIRST thing I write about since that is a big part of the reason I moved to Italy in the first place. Basically having “next-door “access to historical sites and countries, especially for this Texan … Continue reading »
sounds so much more exciting in the title.. But what I am referring to is books.. Or rather my love affair with them.. the other night I picked up one of the many books I read at the same time ( is it weird to read many at one time?) and read myself to sleep, normally … Continue reading »
