The city of Venice from the water.
I have just spent two weeks in the glorious and much photographed city of Venice. It’s one of those places that has been much written about and so much loved that I hesitate to add my two kilos of…
I have just spent two weeks in the glorious and much photographed city of Venice. It’s one of those places that has been much written about and so much loved that I hesitate to add my two kilos of…
As some of you know, I haven’t been too well this year so it was a great idea to spend two weeks in Venice this summer. I got back a couple of weeks ago and, even though I can’t report…
I know a lot of you have been worried about me. You all think that I will find it hard adjusting to getting back home to Lewes in England after two glorious weeks on holiday in Venice where, amongst other…
I have been on holiday and have just got back from two weeks in Venice – just long enough to begin to feel that it was home. I’ve always loved Italy and now it doesn’t feel right to let a…
Dirk Bogart in the 1971 Visconti film Death In Venice I haven’t been well over the last few weeks and, without being exactly a hypochondriac, my mind does go back at these times to that great death scene in the…
I had a new poem published with week, Sicilian Vespas, which was written after I spent some time on the wonderful island of Sicily a couple of years ago. My thanks are due, yet again, to Every Day Poets for…
I haven’t been posting on here much over the last week as you my loyal readers will have noticed. I’ve been trying to finish my new novel before Christmas and, this morning, I came to the end of the third…
Luca Zingaretta as Inspector Montalbano I was talking to a friend earlier about Sicily, that most beautiful of places, and remembered that I still have some episodes of the wonderful Italian television series Inspector Montalbano to see. It’s part luxury…
I boarded the good ship Queen Elizabeth for the last trip I took away from the little rented house in the Italian village Gabicce Monte. I was on a pilgrimage, traveling along the Adriatic coast from the little Gabicce-Cattolica harbour…
I wouldn’t have seen Rimini if it hadn’t been for an offer of a lift by Stefano Cecchini, the very hospitable landlord of my rented holiday house in Gabicce Monte near the Adriatic Coast in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna.…