Quanto? Tanto!

Quanto? Tanto!  has moved over to Substack, where the nuts and bolts of this sort of operation are more up to date. Please join me over ther...

I've written before about the beautiful 19th-century theater around the corner from us that looks like a miniature La Scala. It was buil...

One of the pleasures of strolling Fidenza's main street is window-shopping the elegant clothing stores whose windows stand out amid the ...

I saw some interesting vending machines during our visit to Sicily, too. A couple that I examined in Palermo sold the usual drinnks and snac...

The only vending machines that are part of my life in California are the ones for BART tickets and parking spaces. Otherwise I associate the...

This post is not about offal, nor anything salacious. (Apologies to those who are disapponted on either count,) Rather it concerns the music...

Our friends Kate and Randy were here over the weekend to check out our Fidenza lifestyle. What they experienced was a lot of gabbing, a dail...

We got back to Fidenza on Thursday afternoon, greeted by warm sunshine and shiny-clean streets. The annual San Donnino festival had finished...

 We are about to climb aboard a plane and returning to Italy, and so I am racing to finish the story of last May's Sicily trip before I ...