Rome for the first time, la prima volta
Setting foot in your dream city for the first time is better than your first kiss, or your first lovemaking....
Tea Time (São Paulo, Brazil)
His apartment was sparse. We sat in the kitchen a lot. Two wooden stools facing each other around the foldable...
Graveyards – Ireland and France
Supermarkets teach us about how people live and graveyards or cemeteries show us how people die, or how we deal with death. So, visiting them when you travel can be very useful.
A fan tour in Trieste
Inspiration: Trieste Italy. It doesn’t matter if your hero is from the movies, sports or fashion. Everyone gets inspired by someone’s attitude or ideas and
No dessert, no passport
No desert, no passport. Six tablespoons of powdered chocolate, one can of condensed milk, butter. You need three simple ingredients to prepare a Brazilian…
When food is no fun
When food is not fun. It happened to me a lot over the years. It doesn’t matter if you are heading from Grand Central Station to the suburbs, if you are on…
London, five hours in Planet Bowie (to read while listening to “Heroes”)
July, 2013. I was in Thomastown, Ireland, a tiny quiet village where my in-laws live. David Bowie Is, the exhibit recounting all Bowie’s life and career, was drawing crowds in London beyond the million marks. One morning I was taking a walk in the countryside, Aladin…
The Perfect Cappuccino
Many years ago, in Perugia, I had a literature teacher, Mrs. Finocchi, who used to bark about cappuccino in every class: “The only cappuccino I drink in this town is from Sandri Bar. They are decent enough to use fresh milk. In Rome they don’t dare prepare a…
The Path
One block. That is the distance between Berder Island and the mainland in Brittany. You can cross by foot in five minutes, but you have to come back before the tide rises over the short path. I drove every morning from the house to the Boulangerie in Larmour-Baden…
