The Venice Experience

During Carnevale, everywhere you turn there are costumes, costumes, costumes.  Today, I caught this cute pair of lions in front of the Ala ...

The flight of the Angel took place in ST. Mark's square on Saturday afternoon. This is one of the kickoff events of Carnevale. Note: I...

This is Campo Santa Margherita, the largest campo in Venice. It's far from the maddening crowds at the Rialto and San Marco. It's w...

Thursday afternoon on my walk home from FateBeneFratelli, I wasn't too far from our apartment when I noticed a girl standing on Tre Pont...

Sciopero.  Now there's an Italian word you should learn quickly. It means strike. The verb is scioperare- to strike.  And yes, this week...

My friend Yvonne in Australia sent me an email the other day asking if I had seen this ship on the Zattere yet. I try to stay up on what...

 When the calendar flips to February, I look forward to the telltale signs all over Venice that it won't be long before Carnevale arrive...

One of the things on my must-do list while in Caserta was to track down the family coffee shop that I'd heard so many stories about grow...

My Italian family dinner was an event I will remember for a long time to come- all 12 courses of it!  Here's what we ate, in the order i...

For years when I was growing up my mother would talk about the family she left back in Italy. We've heard names, and know a few sparse d...