Italy
Destination: Italy Movie: Three Coins in a Fountain (1954) Stars include Jean Peters, Dorothy McGuire, Maggie MacNamara, Clifton Webb, Rossano Brazzi and Louis Jourdan If you want a look at a foreign culture, the original Three Coins in a Fountain movie will do it for you. Yes, there is a lot about Italian culture, but [...]
Has it been five years since we were in Italy? Unbelievable! But Italy stays with you once you have traveled there. Here’s another of my round-up posts (read: she’s traveling and not blogging every day).
Another TV hit for travelers–this time ITALY is the destination. I have Longitude books to thank for this discovery, and you can browse the whole collection of these mysteries at their site. If you don’t already get their newsletter, I highly recommend it for outstanding travel books. Aurelio Zen mysteries by Michael Dibdin air on [...]
When you comment, you will be entered to win a book about a place you probably don’t want to travel to. (See below) Destination: Afghanistan? No. Ethiopia? No. Sudan? No. Italy? Yes. Book: Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert. A Guest Post by Alisa Bowman Alisa Bowman has written Project: Happily Ever After: Saving Your [...]
EVERYBODY WINS! What a month! Huge thanks to the Dream of Italy for donating a newsletter subscription and to Traveler’s Tales for a bouquet of four books for the Bella Italia Giveaway. Ken and I got to go to France. You got to read a bunch of new voices. Guest bloggers got acquainted with the [...]
Destination: Collelungo, Umbria, Italy Book: NEW Marcus of Umbria: What an Italian Dog Taught an American Girl About Love by Justine van der Leun (June 2010) GUEST POST by Edie Jarolim First, an admission: I rarely read travel memoirs by living writers.
REMINDER: Bella Italy Giveaway continues through September. When you leave a comment on any post during the month of September your name will be put in the capello for the drawing. You may win one of eight great prizes. Now read on for another great guest post. This time Kerry Dexter of Music Road finds [...]
We have a GREAT Bella Italia Giveaway coming up. All you have to do is comment starting today and all during the month of September, and when I return from France I will round up your comments, run them through random.org and declare 8 winners. It will be particularly fun for you because I will [...]
