Tag: #weekendinItaly


  • Weekend in Tuscany, also for testing brides and girlfriends

    I took the featured photo on the last of my many weekends in Tuscany, during a wonderful trek in the ‘ Pratese Apennines. That trailer could have been: With presumed or would-be girlfriends, arranging a weekend in Tuscany (or Marche and Umbria, close to my home) has also often been a way to better gauge…

  • Visiting Tuscan islands, umbrella talk

    For many people, vacation is just one thing: lying on a sunbed on the beach; I really think the last time it happened to me was when visiting the Tuscan Islands in 2018. Umbrella chatter on Elba Island When I am alone, partly to obviate the bloodletting involved in taking a single in our country,…

  • On a weekend in the Marche region, like winning the lottery

    I’ve lost count of my weekends in Le Marche, and I get the rounds mixed up a bit; but one I remember for sure: I happened to win a mall lottery. Winning the lottery, again With a friend who was staying in Pesaro, first we went to beautiful Ascoli, then to the caves of Frasassi…

  • Alternative New Year on the road: ditching the spouse

    Also in Umbria, with a morose, I spent an alternative New Year’s Eve on the road, if only because I dumped her the next day. The cities of Umbria In Perugia, I really like the entrance to the historic center with the escalators that go through the Rocca Paolina, and with all the history and…