Stories from travels in

Italy

A pervasive sense of style

I might have my issues with China but that said, one of my favourite places in the world to have breakfast is in San Francisco’s

No one goes to Modica

When I said I was going to Modica, they asked me why. When I said I’d found a nice hotel, they looked  askance. Surely I

Venice, masks, and Stendahl’s syndrome

Back in 1817, a French Romantic novelist Henri-Marie Byle who wrote under the pen name ‘Stendahl’ was visiting Florence. While visiting the Basilica of Saint