A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, whoops! Wrong city!

Bill is in Sicily on a business trip while I had business in Florence regarding my application for dual citizenship, and, never one to mix … Continue Reading ››

October a gorgeous time for travel across the globe and this October is no exception. And Florence, with its staggering wealth of renaissance wonders, is a gorgeous city that has us swiveling our heads to take in the delights at every turn of the road.

It’s been something like 35 years since I last … Continue Reading ››

Some photos from our tour of the Uffizi, started with some Altar peices which were some of the earliest works on display. Then we have Botticelli, Leonardo, Raffaello, Caravaggio (the Medusa shield) and Rembrandt with Andreas our tour guide who really knew his stuff, was friendly, polite, and had plenty of fascinating and interesting … Continue Reading ››

Caravaggio’s Bacchus, God of wine, at the Uffizi Gallery. “Look closely, why do you think there are rings in his wine?” Asked Andrea, our tour guide. “Dinosaurs?” I replied.

This was not the correct response. I’m widely misunderstood.

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Another wonderful tour yesterday at the Uffizi Gallery, wide-eyed and wandering among the works of the masters along with likely half the population of planet earth

We crossed Ponte Vecchio but the wine bar we had planned on … Continue Reading ››

One giant step closer to living my ancestral Italian dream! Thank you to my avvocato, Michele, Monica and his wonderful staff for all their assistance in this process!

If you know, you know…

(Missing my Bilbo…)