Circulating: City of Influence
Florence, Italy, ranks among the most beautiful and culturally influential cities in the world — which is why I was so thrilled to get to traipse through its neighborhoods and the surrounding Tuscan countryside for a week this past July.
My eight-page article covering some of the things I experienced while I was there has been published in the latest issue of Jetset Magazine, which also features the perpetually handsome Patrick Dempsey from Grey’s Anatomy on its cover, along with a story on the actor’s successful turn as a race car driver. (True story: He owns and drives for Dempsey Racing.)
Wait, where was this post headed?
Oh right, Florence … Read more
Riomaggiore
During the week I was in Italy this past July, my family set aside a day to travel from Florence to Riomaggiore, a village situated on the Italian Riviera.
Riomaggiore is one of the Cinque Terre (five lands) located along a stretch of rugged coastline west of the city of La Spezia, in the Liguria region of Italy. Because Riomaggiore is the first of the five villages you arrive at when coming from the direction of Florence, and because we were only going to have time to visit one of the villages, Riomaggiore was the obvious choice. Although I wish we could have taken the train that goes from one to the next! Maybe next time. Read more
View From Castello di Verrazzano
Photos of Florence and Tuscany will be coming soon, but in the meantime I thought I’d post this teaser. The photo at left is one I took from the Castello di Verrazzano, outside of Florence in the Chianti region. Click on the snapshot for a slightly larger version. Read more
TrekEarth
"Sony Nightshot" by rio_de_janeiro on TrekEarth
There are a lot of good travel photography sites out there (do you know of some? please share!), but I just recently discovered TrekEarth, and I have to say, I like it.
The website’s layout and presentation could be better — its navigation just doesn’t mesh well with my own train of thought, I guess — but I appreciate the quality of photos available for browsing. Sometimes it’s fun (and maybe even necessary, right?) to go on an armchair vacation. Read more
Guide Me: Travel Books and Other Necessary Equipment
At the end of this month, I’m headed to New York City for an assignment, and I can’t wait. Having never before spent any real amount of time in our country’s most famous city, I’m really looking forward to the experience.
Of course, never one to show up unprepared, I believe in doing a healthy amount of research well ahead of time (hello, writer), which includes never entering a foreign land (“foreign” more as in “unknown,” rather than “outside of the U.S.,” and “land” as in “city” or “country,” rather than “territory” or “countryside”) without a super fantastic, detailed, all-inclusive, handy dandy guidebook. Read more
