Weekly guides & maps for terrific places to eat, stay & shop in Italy’s best known destinations.
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Overnight in Sud Tirol
I have told you before I don’t love the mountains. How even though I grew up in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains I need salt and sand and open vistas. I find all those twisty turny roads with looming beauty just the teensiest bit claust...
Italian office hours: July 2026
Updates from a slow and busy month
How is your summer going? Here in Venice it has been hot and stormy with the occasional cool breezy night. I tend to stay close to home this time of year. I try my best to slow down and keep my calendar c...
One night in Ravenna: A Gillian Knows Best guide
so many sparkly mosaics + a few cocktails
You would think someone who is as wild about mosaics as I am would have been to Ravenna. I have no good reason why it took me 2 decades. After our spring meandering in Le Marche we planned one nigh...
Trip report: Rome Q1 2026
a snazzy new metro station, a hidden Armenian treasure, a church sacristy you may have missed + porchetta
In February, after two weeks of Carnevale festivities in Venice I made a quick trip to Rome for a good pal’s birthday party. I always...
How to go to a Venetian Carnival ball
I know that from here in hot and steamy July a cold and foggy Venetian February feels impossibly far away. For the planners out there I have something that 2027 you is really going to appreciate.
One of the questions you get a lot when you...
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I live in Venice. My superpower is finding terrific places to eat, stay & shop in Italy’s best known destinations. Sometimes I write about them
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