We spent some time this November on the ferry plying Lake Como. This picture came up. There’s some PhotoShop in it to be sure. I’ve cranked the “clarity” controls way down. The wrong way in other words. I’m trying to define “romantic” in a picture....

Mondovi is an interesting town near Cuneo.

I was raised a Methodist. You remember Methodists. They were the ones who decided that God was wrong about all that wine talk in the Bible, so a former Methodist preacher who later became a dentist got to thinking about all this wrongness and...

There’s a thing about Italy you should know. If you go to a wine region, you’re most likely to get great food even in the smaller, less expensive places. These things go together: wine|food. So today we arrive in Barolo and check out our digs at...

I’m always looking for new roads and new experiences. The drive from our Lunigiana digs to the Emilia Romagna to the town of Calestano required a fair amount of driving some darn curvy roads. I let Martha do it. She needs the practice. The colors...