Quanto? Tanto!

As mentioned, our friend Valerie came to town for a few days from her aerie in the beautiful hill town of Orvieto. We have no comparable sce...

On the day I flew back to Italy from New York I stopped off in Brooklyn to have lunch with my son at a wonderful ramen restaurant near his h...

I realize that my long silence after announcing the death of my mom a few weeks ago may have created the impression among my faithful reader...

My father took this picture of Dot and me. It says a lot about our relationship. My mom, Dorothy DeCarlo, died on Sunday. She'd bee...

Our visiting friends had seen the Quanto? Tanto! post from last summer about the mysterious Bronze Age totems  in a nearby town and were e...

Last week two old friends whom we hadn't seen for almost six years came for a visit, and in addition to catching up on each other's ...

The piazza on Saturday night: The piazza on Monday morning: After almost two weeks of partying, Fidenza is settling back into everyd...

The day after we flew in, still woozy from time-change-induced sleep disturbance, we had cappuccini and panini at our favorite bar across th...

Which means "Welcome back!" And despite gray weather and a bit of morning-after disarray, Fidenza felt delightfully welcoming when...

Wouldn't you know it? The heat started to break our last night in Fidenza. It was the first really pleasant summer evening in weeks. W...

Last Saturday was a "Notte bianca" (white night) in Fidenza, meaning that the downtown stays open late and there's music or ot...