One of my Italian teachers told me about the Italian tradition to wear red underwear on... Read more →

As this blog has grown I've had the opportunity to meet some wonderful people doing... Read more →

Happy St. Nicholas’s Day!! My parents and I celebrate St. Nicholas’s Day every... Read more →

Let's look around town a bit, shall we? Buildings in Herculaneum were multi-level and... Read more →

Happy Herculaneum Humpday!  Today we're going to the College of the Augustales.... Read more →

The third post in the Herculaneum Humpday series focuses on the homes at ancient... Read more →

Herculaneum Humpday... Where were we? Oh, right - we had just gone down the long spooky... Read more →

There's way too much to say about Herculaneum to put in one post, so I've decided to... Read more →

If you walk down to the pier in Sorrento, you’re likely to pass through a piazza with a... Read more →

I had read a couple threads about Caffé Florian before I went to Venice.  Most of them... Read more →