What do you do when you need to go across the Grand Canal in Venice and you are miles away from the...
Category - Italian Art and Culture
The Good Witch Befana
How good a boy or a girl have you been in the preceding twelve months is a question of utter...
The Magical Creatures of Veneto
A few days ago I came face to face with three rather sinister-looking ladies. They had...
Seurat, Van Gogh, Mondrian – The Best Exhibition in a Long...
Have you been in one of those situations where you are adamant that you don’t want to and...
The Delicate Art of Carving a Cameo
‘By carving away the top white layer the dark layer at the bottom is revealed, thus creating...
Exploring Vicenza: Gallerie d’Italia at Palazzo Leoni...
Today I am going to show you the quirkiest museum in Vicenza. I loved it so much that I went there...
Antiques Market and Modern Art – A Proper Mishmash
This is a story in pictures of how we went to the antiques market in Piazzola sul Brenta and found...
Exploring Vicenza: The Russian Icons Collection at Palazzo Leoni...
The room was dark. The long coiling body of the snake filled me with dread. Instinctively, I...
Art At Your Fingertips
The girl asked for my consent and tied a black blindfold over my eyes. The visual world disappeared...
È Carnevale
My heart used to belong to the Carnival in Venice. This all changed after spending a wild day in...