Fairy Dust
This morning as I caught the water taxi from Calle de Treghetto to the Venice Airport, I was thinking this post would be called The Wild...
Call of the Courtesan
Venice does not want me to leave. She has said so in a thousand whispers and shouts. The thrum of the vaporetto engine has demanded 'No,...
Numero Uno
My observations in no particular order; 1. There are pigeons everywhere 2. There are dogs everywhere 3. Sometimes the dogs even take...
It's a wonderful world
The Cannaregio sestiere (or suburb) I have been calling home this past week forms a large crescent shape between the Grand Canal and the...
La Seconda Casa
There are two inescapable features of italian life - food and history, and this weekend in particular, I have experienced both in...
Like sand through an hourglass...
On the flight to Rome I watched a scifi-thriller movie titled Lucy. It describes how if as humans we could access the full capacity of...
Celebrating the day
Today was a day for adventure and exploration. Stepping out from the Hotel I look directly across to the Island of Giudecca but it was...
Arriving in Venice
Venice is indeed a city of dreams, of waterways and fading stucco and of decaying grandeur made even more romantic because of its decay....
The Sweet Life...
No one rises early in Rome. Walking to the Piazza de Popolo I was very nearly the only person onthe street. Last night real Romans were...
The Past Life - Mt Vesuvius & Pompeii
As the blur of the industrial sector on Rome's outskirts passes, it gives way to plots of land sloping towards the highway planted with...
