Crossing Cultures
We’re waiting to catch a train to Venice, four of us: my husband and I, our son and…
Places
Montreal, a Patchwork City of Design
A cross between the brash New York huckster and the fun-loving Parisian artist, Montreal…
Civil Life on the Canals
Venice has a reputation as a “serene” city – its surname in Italian is la…
The Long Way to Rome
All roads lead to Rome, as they say, but none compares with the experience of walking the…
Learning the Art of Language in Florence
Although Florence is famous for having once been flooded with artists and thinkers, today…
La Bella Marca on Cape Breton Island
Dominion is a small town of approximately 2,000 people in Cape Breton Island. It…
Symbol of Resurgence – Montreal’s Casa d’Italia
In the mid 1960s the Italian community almost lost the Casa d’Italia landmark. It took…
The Marches – All of Italy in One Region
Of the 40 million foreign tourists who flock to the “museum peninsula” every year,…
The Graffiti Walls of the Eternal City
The jumbled, colourful, in-your-face world of Rome’s graffiti is getting a bad rap.…
Colours of the Marches
Nestled behind its more celebrated neighbours of Emilia Romagna and San Marino to the…