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Italy’s Silver Lining

Italy’s Silver Lining

This month I am very pleased to welcome Andrea Vogt as our Guest Author. Andrea is a journalist and author who reports on crime, politics and social affairs in Europe and the U.S.  Her dispatches have appeared internationally in the print, online and broadcast media, including The Guardian, The Week, The Independent, BBC, Seattlepi.com, The Seattle Times [...]

The Cultural Revolution Comes To Le Marche

The Cultural Revolution Comes To Le Marche

This month I am pleased to welcome Sarah Trevathan of the Montanaro Circle as Guest Author. Sarah is a psychotherapist with a PhD in Holistic Theology and lives in Le Marche with her husband and three children. The Montanaro Circle offers specialised courses in art, nature and spirituality. This is Sarah’s “The cultural revolution comes to [...]

Anne Robichaud Featured as Guest Author

Anne Robichaud Featured as Guest Author

This month’s Guest Author is Anne Robichaud, the only American authorized Guida Regionale dell’Umbria and her Umbrian hilltown tours reveal not only the artistic wealth of Umbria but also its many “hidden treasures”…including the people. Her Rural Life Revisited tour is centered on Anne and Sicilian husband Pino’s farm friends who taught them everything when [...]

Five Senses

Five Senses

This month I am pleased to welcome Rebecca Winke, from Brigolante as Guest Author. Since 2003, Rebecca has been writing and documenting her experiences as a transplanted American city girl to the Umbrian countryside. Rebecca moved to Italy from Chicago in 1993 and shortly thereafter opened an agriturismo in her husband’s renovated family farmhouse at [...]

*Book Giveaways* and an Excerpt from "100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go".

*Book Giveaways* and an Excerpt from "100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go".

This month we are very pleased to introduce a guest post from Susan Van Allen, the author of “100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go”, a book that has just won the Honorable Mention 2010 Eric Hoffer Book Award, Culture Category. The essay is entitled: The Royal Apartments in the Palazzo Reale in Turin [...]