With the Monsignor in Vatican City

I feel like I have spent an awful lot of time around the Vatican recently. There was Easter and there was the beatification two weeks...

A History of Fish and Chips in Great Britain

When I was a kid, I used to walk home from my swimming club and stop every Friday night at the fish and chips shop....

Could This Year’s Beautiful Acqua Alta in Venice Be the Last?

If you are lucky enough as a tourist to have been inundated with water in San Marco, you will have been the recipient of the...

A Food & Wine Lover’s Guide to Piedmont, Italy

So, what do you do when you need a break from Turin? The good news is that Piedmont is Italy’s new culinary region for cutting...

Everything You Need to Know About Visiting Turin, Italy

Our journey to Turin turned into a long day in the car. An adventure in the dead of winter involving a train and lots of...

Where to Find the Best View in Italy

Every time I go to Venice, I get caught in that star struck moment—is it live, is it Disney, or is it even Las Vegas?...

Italia Nord, Italia Sud, and the Trains that Unite Them

Italy is a strange and wonderful country. It is at once hopelessly inefficient, exasperating, and unfathomable. Its regions are fiercely independent and culturally alien to...

3 Delicacies to Try at La Boqueria Food Market in Barcelona

I love visiting food markets and spice markets. I have done my fair share of travelling, have wandered through the souks in Morocco, and am...

In Brazil, Don’t Always Trust Your Guidebook

weather is hot in Rio de Janeiro and you have already been to the top of Sugarloaf Mountain to see the the Christ statue, the...

Natal, Brazil: A Little Beach With A Lot of Heart

II have been to Brazil three times. The first time we went to Salvador, the old capital, 32 years ago. The second time we went...