Yearly Archive: 2010

Santa Croce Without a Baedeker

And so Day Three of our Florentine adventures dawned, pouring with rain.  We decided to cross the street and visit the Pitti Palace, and dear...

adventures with wild boar

Travel, like so many other pleasant things (marriage, for example) is all about compromise.  Unless you go abroad with people who share your interests, unlike...

Florence, heavenly Florence

This trip to Florence was a milestone for me: in a moment of epiphany, I realized that the word “Bronzino” conjures up fishy recipes, these...