From Treviso to Venice
Mary Murphy
June 14, 2018
Someone was telling me recently that the best way to be a responsible tourist is not to travel to places that are being overrun. They
Someone was telling me recently that the best way to be a responsible tourist is not to travel to places that are being overrun. They
Are tattoos to bodies what graffiti is to walls and buildings? I’m not sure. There’s been a lot in the press lately about tattoos and
The city of Parma, without the ham and the cheese, is more than just eggs. That said, it takes a little getting used to as
I lived with a chap once who would throw up at the smell of Parmesan cheese. He hated the smell. Absolutely detested it. And this
I’ve heard of fake Gucci bags, fake Rolex watches, fake tans, but fake hams? This was a first for me. In Parma, I had the
I had my heart set on seeing Cinque Terre – the five villages on the Italian Riviera that belong on a chocolate box. They’re perched
Other people’s opinions and impressions can have a marked effect on me. It depends, of course, the weight I give them and how they’ve done
If I’m already in a bad mood, auto-correction on my phone has been known to drive me over the edge, into a world where I
‘I’ll come around and pick you up’, he said, in a to-die-for Italian accent. ‘Ten minutes. Be ready.’ ‘Okay’, says I. ‘I’ll go down and
In the Bourbon Tunnels (Tunnel Borbonica) in Naples (the city’s No. 2 tourist attraction according to Trip Advisor), I heard tell of a man who
