Venice and the treasures of the 4th Crusade
From the 11th-16th centuries, Venice was the Master of the Sea, the Merchant to World and the greatest Naval power in Europe. She was known as ‘La Serenissima’, ‘Il Stato …
Verona: Ancient Rome, Medieval Warlords and Romeo and Juliet tourism
For a city of around 275,000 inhabitants, Verona can swell twice it’s size between June and September, most of t come for the Summer Opera Season at the Verona Arena or …
2010 – Venice; San Polo, San Marco and the Vaporetto pass
It was an early flight but it was really inexpensive. We arrived to the Venice airport at 7:30am but couldn’t check into the apartment until 2:15pm. We planned to leave …
2005 – Tuscan Vandalism and the Brenta River of the Veneto
Florence The big news in Florence. Last night a local idiot climbed up Bartolomeo Ammannati’s fountain of Neptune in the Piazza Signoria and as he stepped into “Il Biancone’s” hand, …
2004 – Venice and the Veneto
The stretch of the Adriatic Coast from Pescara to Venice is flat, the water is bile colored acquamarine and the high rise apartment buildings and new condominiums springing up the …
2003 – Padua – Celebrating my Birthday on the Feast of St Martin
“I’ve come to wive it wealthily in Padua” was how Cole Porter wrote it for the score of “Kiss me Kate”. Actually in the three days we spent walking through …
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