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How to Manage Gluten Intolerance in Italy

Gluten and I have a toxic relationship. I am not coeliac, but let’s say when gluten and I get together the outcome is fun at...

A Painter’s Paradise

For me, my favourite memories of Holland and France revolve around art and family. Beautiful art wrapped up with rare memories of a family I...

Vietnam by Melinda

This is an article that my friend Melinda wrote a few years ago after her first trip to Vietnam. I was in awe of the...

A Day in Arezzo

Not all things go the way you anticipate. The plan can and usually does go out the window but more often than not something better...

Painting Cortona and Venice with artist, Kathy Karas

Do you know that feeling when a painting touches your heart? Embraces you, captures you, makes you think and feel? When it suddenly evokes a...

The Freedom of Packing Light (an introduction)

"He who would travel happily must travel light. – Antoine de St. Exupery" The suitcase is on the bed waiting to be packed. You look...

3 Important Reasons to Visit Cortona

I recently travelled to Cortona in Italy. You may know the town as the from the book, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy. Or...

How to Plan a Trip to New York City, as an introvert

Planning a trip to New York City can be daunting. Especially, if you are an introvert like me. Big cities are not normally my first...

Changing our Style

I love listening to people’s stories.  They inspire me. We all have our own stories to tell. Or not. I tell mine here on this...

Glamour without the Glitz – a glamping experience

A couple of weekends ago we went “Glamping” on the South Coast of New South Wales. Glamorous Camping.  It was something that had been on...