Places to Eat

Restaurants, wine bars and other fun places Before I write about some of my favorite restaurants (plus a few places to avoid or that were disappointing) I want to talk about why I generally love the dining experience in France and Italy.  My daughter says I’m the slowest eater in the Western Hemisphere and maybe […]

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Rome

This will be a fairly short article, at least for me.  In 2016 my sister and I took a walking tour of Tuscany (see Thoughts on choosing a tour group, airline or place to stay, Montecatini Terme and Siena to St. Gimignano  posts,) that covered a number of towns from Montecatini Terme, to Siena and Cortona. Our walking tour […]

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