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A Walk in the Park

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Well, truth be told, I have some more food photos for you, but given the reaction to my last post, I think I’ll wait a bit and let you build up an appetite. In order to do this, I’d like to take you on a walk in the woods, at the Parco Nazionale d’Abruzzo: […]

Crib Street

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

Let one thing be said for Italy at Christmastime: these people love their nativity scenes. So much so that I would go as far as to say that a nativity scene, known in Italian as presepe and sometimes by the French word crèche, is more common than a Christmas tree in many Italian homes.
The […]

One Day in Naples (Part 2)

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Today we continue our walk around Naples, and the photo on the left has something unique in it…can you spot it?
As we were walking around I saw someone lower a blue plastic bucket from a window, then someone on the street either took something out or put something in, and the person in the […]

One Day in Naples

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

I haven’t mentioned this before, but Alessandro has written a book that’s going to press in the next week or so. The book discusses symbolism related to the Knights Templar and the holy grail, but not in a Dan Brown kind of fictionalized way. It is based on his own personal research and discoveries […]

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