I’ve been an expat since 2002 when, armed with a year of self-taught Italian, I moved from New York to Rome, Italy – alone – two days after breaking up with my [...]

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard how “souvenir” is the French word for “memory,” and how memories are the best kinds of keepsakes we can bring home from [...]

I liked this image because I love pictures of fruit vendors, markets etc, but also because it is a reminder that these 5 picturesque towns on the Italian towns may be overrun [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Jessica Spiegel of BootsNAll’s Italy blog “Why Go Italy” and the Eye on Italy podcast about one of her favorite cities in Italy: Milan. Jessica tells us [...]

Varenna Italy is a beautiful city on the shores of Lake Como in Italy. The center of town is OK looking but Varenna saves its prettiest face for views from the lake. [...]

Portovenere is on the Italian coast is just south of the Cinque Terre. I am guessing that the guy in the foreground with the megaphone is a tour guide. You have to [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Italophile Ira Bernstein who returns to the show to talk about day trips in Tuscany that you can take from Florence. We talk about visiting the walled [...]

This is the coastline just south of the Cinque Terre in Italy. The church of San Pietro was built in the 6th century on the site of an ancient temple to Venus [...]

Rick Steves made the Cinque Terre famous to Americans but the Italians already knew of these 5 fishing villages along the rocky northwest cost of Italy. This photo was shot on a [...]

This picture is taken from the Campanile di San Marco and looks out to the northeast over the Cathedral and the rest of Venice. The campanile is a reconstruction of the tower [...]