Christopher E Metzger·Oct 27NO KIDDINGEvery schoolday morning — at about 10:45 — teachers from our local kindergarten put their thirty, or so, wards into little wagons, or…
Wondershelfbook·Oct 25Why Working Landscapes Make Stories of Reinvention Feel More RealVineyards, farms, gardens, and other productive landscapes give characters something more demanding than a beautiful escape: a place that…
Christopher E Metzger·Oct 20Caffe? Doppio? Cappuccino? Macchiato? Americano?My little town has four caffes…and at least eight other places you can get a coffee. One is better than the others. But I’m not going to…
Christopher E Metzger·Sep 30LEAVE IT A LITTLE LONG IN THE BACKSome people have to go long distances to get a little glimpse of culture (As defined: “…the customs, arts, social institutions, and…
Christopher E Metzger·Sep 15And We All Lived Happily Ever AfterIf I have it right; a long time ago the Greeks were invading Troy and just before they got inside the walls — several Trojans escaped and…
Edoardo Montenegro·Aug 10The Little Shop of Horrors of Coastal TuscanySixty years ago, at the dawn of the 1960s, the Roman-born writer Carlo Cassola wrote proudly of living on the Tuscan coast, which he…
Timeless & Magnificent Journal·Jul 28Why You Must Experience Mediterranean Living in Porto Santo Stefano By The Timeless and Magnificent…
Beto Pacheco·Jul 27Florence: Something Happens in My Heart Whenever I Cross ‘Via dei Servi’ and ‘Via del Castellaccio’On the corner of Via dei Servi and Via del Castellaccio stands the Palazzo di Sforza Almeni. The Palazzo is a building whose tapered…
Lee Shao Ting·Jul 19義大利托斯卡尼－－開車開到末路狂花的慢活之旅我們的第一站是佛羅倫斯，傳說中物價貴俗俗的文藝復興大城。根據當地一位協槓爵士樂手的導遊所說，本以行醫維生的梅蒂奇家族自從來到此處後，便不斷放高利貸，於兩百年後變成第一名有錢人，到處捐錢贖罪與掩蓋黑歷史之後，成就了數不清的、華麗莊嚴的教堂。
Christopher E Metzger·Jul 7It’s Hot Here; But It Is Still CoolDo you see that building across the Piazza? The one with the dark rectangular window openings? That is a picture of the Locanda/the Albergo…
