I was on my fourth visit to Stia in the Casentino, southeastern Tuscany, when Michelle Logue published her blog on our Slow Travel Tours website (https://slowtraveltours.com/blog/an-italian-pilgrimage/). It set me thinking afresh about the question: why travel? I needed to tie up … Continue reading →
In 1994 I was working for a large interdisciplinary travel group. It was my first time in Italy and I was responsible for leading approximately eighteen painters from Montecatini Terme to the little hill town of Montecatini Alto for our … Continue reading →
Quite rightly travellers to foreign countries worry about illness ruining their holiday. Drinking water is at the centre of many of their fears. Let me reassure you that tap water in Italy is safe to drink. Standards are set by … Continue reading →
