We've been slacking, but here it is, the next teaser of This Is Heaven . This teaser is mostly for insiders, intimi to the meanderin...

So, on Wednesday, we happen upon Giotto 's tower next to the Duomo , a 114 meter erection built with the prescient eye of a genius who ...

In his book about Florence, David Leavitt talks about Cibreo , " one of the most famous restaurants in town [which] is divided into ...

To climb Giotto's tower (here's a view from the top)... ...you need a ticket (15 €) which you can buy at a ticket office. It...

We decided to go to Florence for a few days and so we swang by Portofino , on the Cinque Terre peninsula, to the east of Genua. Nothin...

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In yet another vain attempt at self-promotion we have to---we simply HAVE TO react to Urban Dictionary's word of the day, Trump's ...

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Future archaeologists from Titan and other parts of the galaxy will call our epoch the Bzzfrzzakitamot period ("bizarre blond c...

Moon, yes

Brigg station, waiting for the shuttle to take us through the Simplon tunnel (pass was closed) Arriving in the Valle Antrona on the It...

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