2016-05-21 06:43
This is an update on my slow and painful recovery. CAT scan on Monday. Hope to be able to start posting again in a couple weeks Read More
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2016-05-08 06:28
In my humble opinion I’m a little cuter than this guy, at least I have hair and it’s even curly but thatt doesn’t change the message: I got banged up pretty bad a few… Read More
2016-05-01 05:17
CHIAVARI, Italy -I love this story. It’s about Italian POW’s who were held in a camp in Southern California during World War II. The prisoners had the run of the plac… Read More
2016-04-24 12:04
CHIAVARI, Italy - First time visitors to the Vatican in Rome are often surprised to see just how wedding cake fancy the interior of St. Peter’s Basilica is. There seem to be curlicues… Read More
2016-04-17 05:55
ROME, Italy - The guys in the striped balloon pants that you see at the Vatican are part of the Pope’s private army. They are part of the Pontifical Swiss Guard, the oldest and smalles… Read More
2016-04-10 05:24
PIEDMONT, Italia - Montferrat is in the northern Italian region of Piedmont. What you need to know about it is this: it is one of the most important wine districts in Italy. It’s also… Read More
2016-04-03 06:13
CASERTA, Italy - If you are the Bourbon King Charles VII, His Holy Royal Majesty, King of Naples and Sicily and Jerusalem, Infante of Spain, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, and the son of the Ki… Read More
2016-03-27 06:00
WISHING YOU A VERY HAPPY EASTERSee you next Sunday with more news and views from This Italian Life Read More
2016-03-20 06:13
CHIAVARI, Italy – In this week before Easter, religious festivities in Rome will be front and center on Italian television. The celebration officially start on Holy Thursday with… Read More
2016-03-13 08:28
ROME, Italy - It’s not an exaggeration to say that a visit to the Sistine Chapel is a moving experience. Of all the museums at the Vatican, it is the most popular. About 25,000 people… Read More
2016-03-06 06:39
CHIAVARI, Italy - Fashion Week in Milan is always interesting, but sometimes not for the reasons you might think. No one can deny that the Milanese have a unique fashion style all their own… Read More
2016-03-05 13:15
AGORDO, Italia - The gigantic glasses in front of the Luxottica Company in northern Italy mean more than you might think. They are not just a symbol of what Luxottica makes – but the s… Read More
2016-02-21 08:43
CHIAVARI, Italy - The Quintili brothers, Sextus Quintilius Maximus and Sextus Quintilius Condianus, held Rome’s highest political office, that of Consul. In 151 BC. they decided… Read More
2016-02-16 09:28
CHIAVARI, Italy - Today is Valentine’s Day. It’s a rosy hearts and flowers kind of day. A day where a romantic card, a gift, a bouquet of flowers from a significant other goes a… Read More
2016-02-07 05:04
CHIAVARI, Italy - Owning a property in Italy is the dream of many. Apart from the differences in the laws that cover real estate transactions, the process is unlike any you may have experien… Read More
2016-01-31 05:34
CHIAVARI, Italy - Men’s Fashion Week in Milan ended last week, but its not over yet. The city is still trying to catch its breath from the onslaught of fashion buyers, models, sea… Read More
2016-01-24 07:00
CHIAVARI, Italy - This is the true story of a young girl who made the mistake of falling in love with the wrong man, and was beheaded for that mistake. It didn’t matter that she… Read More
2016-01-17 06:27
CHIAVARI, Italy – In the beginning, bridge builders used logs and large stones to cross rivers and tough terrain. That technique worked for a few centuries, but when the Romans came al… Read More
2016-01-10 05:34
It was supposed to be a short vacation, a few days off for the holidays but then, well, I don’t know what happened cause now we’re halfway into January and the Stuff To Do pile i… Read More
2015-12-20 06:27
CHIAVARI, Italy – Christmas in Chiavari is a very special time. The streets of town are full of sparkly lights, red poinsettia decorate shop windows, and you might even find a Christma… Read More
2015-12-17 06:43
CHIAVARI, Italy – I made a big mistake this week. I’ve been talking a little too much about panettone, and now I want some. I actually had the foolish idea that this year I was j… Read More
2015-12-13 07:29
CHIAVARI, Italy – December 8th is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, and the day many Italians set up their nativity crèches. The crèches are an important part of th… Read More
2015-12-10 06:47
CHIAVARI, Italy – The countdown to Christmas has started and grocery stores shelves are filled cookies and cakes and holiday goodies of every type. In Milan, Panettone is King of… Read More
2015-12-06 05:42
CHIAVARI, Italy - This week kicks off Milan’s traditional Christmas market, Oh Bej, Oh Bej. Back on December 7, 1510, when Giannetto Castiglione came to town and began handing out swee… Read More
2015-12-03 12:48
CHIAVARI, Italy – Living in a small town has a lot of advantages, but every now and again I feel the need for a big city fix. For all the years I’ve lived here, my favorite Itali… Read More
2015-11-26 05:01
CHIAVARI, Italy - While Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, the big celebration here in Italy this month is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception - aka the Immaculata on December 8th. Towns a… Read More
2015-11-23 15:04
CHIAVARI, Italy – It was this photo of the police keeping an eye on Rome’s coliseum after the attacks on Paris that got me thinking about what ISIS has done to national and globa… Read More
2015-11-19 08:27
CHIAVARI, Italy - This eggplant recipe was classified on an Italian web site as a casalese specialty, but since I didn’t know who the Casalese were, I Googled them. Castelbordino, Abru… Read More
2015-11-15 06:53
CHIAVARI, Italy - It's 7AM Sunday morning. The horrific scenes from the terrorist attack in Paris yesterday make the article I was going to post today totally irrelevant. Instead I've decide… Read More
2015-11-12 09:36
CHIAVARI, Italy – Nothing says Italy in the winter like the sweet scent of roasted chestnuts sold from a street vendor in the piazza of your favorite town. It’s a centuries old t… Read More
2015-11-10 15:41
FARNESE, Italy – This is Farnese, a small town in the province of Lazio. It’s where my grandfather was born and where my father spent a good part of his childhood. But that… Read More
2015-11-05 05:35
CHIAVARI, Italy – Shorter days and cooler nights turn Piedmont’s wine district into a wonderland of color.This is Italy’s famous Langhe and Roero wine-growing regions of Pi… Read More
2015-11-01 06:45
CHIAVARI, Italy – Lots of Halloween treats in the windows of pastry shops in Chiavari this week. There are pumpkin shaped candies and my favorite cookies, pan dei morti, the bread… Read More
2015-10-31 07:05
CHIAVARI, Italy – Almost twenty-five years ago, just before I left Philadelphia to live in Italy full time, I bought myself a black leather travel bag. The plan was to get settled in m… Read More
2015-10-29 07:02
CHIAVARI, Italy –A few years back, when I lived in Milan, I worked for Women’s Wear Daily, a fashion newspaper based in New York. As a journalist, I never worked alone. Non… Read More
2015-10-23 18:32
ALBA, Italy – This is a photo story of the wildest palio in Italy, the Palio di Alba. Palios are very popular in Italy, Sienna has one as does Lucca, La Spezia and many other towns.&nb&hell…Read More
2015-10-23 16:06
CHIAVARI, Italy - "God Bless America", my grandmother used to say. My grandfather used to say something else about America, and it wasn’t good. She was thrilled to be there and he, wel… Read More
2015-10-15 08:19
CHIAVARI, Italy - For many of us there comes a time when we think about the things we have always wanted to do and ask ourselves, if not now, when. For me that time came in 1990 when I decid… Read More
2015-10-08 07:21
CHIAVARI, Italy – I saw a Facebook post a while back of an adorable little girl sitting at a kitchen table with pasta dough spread out in front of her. Her grandmother was teachin… Read More
2015-10-04 03:08
CHIAVARI, Italy – One of these days, in the not so distant future, I’m going to be one of the 10 million who visits Florence, Italy this year. (See Statistical Fact No. 23). &hell…Read More
2015-10-01 04:43
CHIAVARI, Italy – I recently posted a photo on Facebook of Domenico Cuscino, a young guy from Palermo who has started selling traditional Sicilian chickpea fritters called… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
CHIAVARI, Italy – Because the Romans in Sicily, and the Greeks before them, left us images of artichokes, we know that this green, spiny vegetable has been around for a long time. But… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
CHIAVARI, Italy – Learning to speak Italian is one thing, understanding Italian is something else altogether different. And it isn’t understanding Italian words that is so d… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
CHIAVARI, Italy – it’s time to prune my little herb garden and I’m going to use the trimmings of the rosemary plant to make a couple of bottles of flavored oil. I bought th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
After living on the Italian Riviera for about five years, I was offered a job in Milan I couldn’t refuse: editor and writer for The Informer, Italy’s only national English langua… Read More
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