Category: Italy

The season for sitting outside

“Sitting watching the world go by” is something I love doing. Especially if it’s in a pavement café where I can simultaneously indulge in another passion, namely enjoying a great coffee or a tasty treat. And, where better in my book, than the pavement cafes, bars and restaurants of Italy, where there’s the best chance of proper coffee, fabulous food and eye-catching scenery. Regular visitors to my blogs and people who know me will recognise some of the images in […]

Musings from a hotel suite verandah in Italy

Musings from Italy We had the benefit and good fortune to be able to enjoy another trip to Tuscany at the beginning of September 2020, despite the problems and worries arising from the prevailing  Covid 19 pandemic. The experience was rewarding and “therapeutic” in terms of being something that we thought would have to be postponed this year and, as we soon discovered, much needed to enliven a feeling of well being. The trip also allowed me to take time […]

Sites and sights in Le Marche Italy

Our annual (and sometimes biannual ) visit(s) to fabulous Tuscany continue, resulting in much pleasure, consumption of great food and wine and of course a plethora of photographs. Our stay in Tuscany this summer was preceded by a few days staying in the Le Marche region of Italy, the calf muscle (or “gastrocnemius” ) in the boot of Italy. We stayed in Ancona and also visited Senigallia to its north and Loreto to its south, before heading back westwards through […]

Seductive Shades of Grey(scale)

People that know me and visitors to my website will be aware that we have a love for Italy, and we are lucky enough to make frequent trips to enjoy the sites, sights, landscape, culture, people, food and wine of that amazing Country, especially the region of Tuscany. The colours of Italy are vibrant and lend themselves to “contrasty” images. But that also means that those red, blue and green channels can look pretty captivating in shades of grey.