Italy
Destination: Venice Movie: Don’t Look Now (1973) I think it is appropriate to segue from two weeks of scary things to a week of Venice by talking about a scary Venice movie. Don’t you?
Destination: Etruscan Italy Book: Etruscan Places: Travels Through Forgotten Italy by D. H. Lawrence (First published in 1932, NEW edition 2011)
Destination: Italy Movie: Three Coins in a Fountain (1954) Stars include Jean Peters, Dorothy McGuire, Maggie MacNamara, Clifton Webb, Rossano Brazzi and Louis Jourdan If you want a look at a foreign culture, the original Three Coins in a Fountain movie will do it for you. Yes, there is a lot about Italian culture, but [...]
Has it been five years since we were in Italy? Unbelievable! But Italy stays with you once you have traveled there. Here’s another of my round-up posts (read: she’s traveling and not blogging every day).
Another TV hit for travelers–this time ITALY is the destination. I have Longitude books to thank for this discovery, and you can browse the whole collection of these mysteries at their site. If you don’t already get their newsletter, I highly recommend it for outstanding travel books. Aurelio Zen mysteries by Michael Dibdin air on [...]
When you comment, you will be entered to win a book about a place you probably don’t want to travel to. (See below) Destination: Afghanistan? No. Ethiopia? No. Sudan? No. Italy? Yes. Book: Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert. A Guest Post by Alisa Bowman Alisa Bowman has written Project: Happily Ever After: Saving Your [...]
EVERYBODY WINS! What a month! Huge thanks to the Dream of Italy for donating a newsletter subscription and to Traveler’s Tales for a bouquet of four books for the Bella Italia Giveaway. Ken and I got to go to France. You got to read a bunch of new voices. Guest bloggers got acquainted with the [...]
Destination: Collelungo, Umbria, Italy Book: NEW Marcus of Umbria: What an Italian Dog Taught an American Girl About Love by Justine van der Leun (June 2010) GUEST POST by Edie Jarolim First, an admission: I rarely read travel memoirs by living writers.
