Visiting art and history museums with a small child may seem like the perfect recipe for a disaster. However, if you are a parent who …

What is your favourite colour? Mine is green. I love green, but the funny thing is that I wouldn’t wear anything green-coloured (large emeralds in the …

I am currently obsessed with the Euganean Hills. This is a group of lush peaks rising gently from the flat as a pancake Venetian plain. They are only …

With trees and bulbs in bloom all around us, we are in the throes of a glorious spring here in the Northern Italian region of Veneto. …

Noale – a tiny medieval town in the plains of Veneto – became the perfect setting for one of my very best Sundays here in Italy so …

‘Un caffe con panna montata‘, I ordered in my faltering Italian. ‘They are just whipping the cream in the kitchen’, the girl behind the counter replied. ‘Take …

I have to admit that even though we have been living in Italy for over two and a half years now, I still have a few …

Would you ever write a letter to Juliet, hoping that the tragic Shakespearean heroine would reply back with the key to eternal love and romantic …

Ravenna in Italy is justly known as the City of Mosaics, for several of its religious buildings are adorned with colourful, ornate mosaic panels which …

Let me give you a little suggestion for your Italian travel wish list: Chioggia. You may not know yet how to pronounce it, but – …