Rome
Today one lucky person will win a copy of a new novel, reviewed recently that has nothing in particular to do with windows and hotels, but a lot to do with looking. See below. And remember you must enter by tomorrow morning. Two weeks ago we looked at a variety of windows from the outside. [...]
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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 [...]
Destination: Rome, Italy Book: The Last Judgment: Michelangelo and the Death of the Renaissance by James A. Connor (NEW Paperback Edition August, 2010 from Palgrave MacMillan) Like Michelangelo and The Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King, this book concentrates on one major work of the maestro. Unlike King’s book, The Last Judgment by James A. (Jim) [...]
If you ask a bit more of your travels than “Where is the Big Mac?”…if you want to truly absorb the local culture, the arts, the literature…(well of course we know you want the literature–that’s why you are here)…I have three sites to recommend to you. My Melange Robin Locker fell in love with Italy, [...]
Destination: Rome Movie: Angels and Demons Well, here we are at the end of Italy week. I went to the long-awaited movie of around noon today. I would say it was the equivalent of dining on one of those fancy bakery cakes decorated with lard and sugar icing and fresh violets. Absolutely beautiful, but [...]
Destination: Rome Books: The Masters of Rome Series by Collen McCullough It seems to me that is essential to have some understanding of ancient Rome if you are going to travel to today’s Rome. All those piles of rock and bits of arches in the forum, with the magnificent hulk of the Coliseum watching over [...]
Destination: Rome Book: Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome by Angela K. Nickerson Number one on my Italian travel agenda: Rome. Number one in Rome: The Sistine Chapel. After a lifetime of seeing pictures of those outstretched index fingers, I wanted to see the rest. Not a [...]
