The Eastside View

Via Toglia, Cardona, June 3, 2015— A   WEEK NOW since I've posted here, and I knew it would be thus: we've been in this hamlet i...

Viale di Villa Pamphili, May 25, 2015 I   WROTE THE OTHER day about the Roman ruins out at Ostia Antica — what must have been quite a big...

Viale Villa Pamphili, Rome, May 24, 2015— T O CONTINUE WITH notes on agriturismi , farm holidays in Italy. Our third, also chosen from ag...

May 14-24, 2015— A   CLOSED IRON GATE ; no doorbell to push. Three or four meters to the side, though, I notice a piece of paper posted to...

Viale di Villa Pamphili, May 21, 2015 Y ES, A LITTLE BIT behind in the dispatches. And even in the private journal, if you want to know. ...

Ostia Antica, May 20, 2015 T HE INTENTION WAS GOOD : to make this a journal of a month in Italy, posting every day or two, writing about th...

Metaponto, Basilicata, May 15, 2015— Y OU MAY HAVE NOTICED , constant reader, if you’re there, that there was until today no chapter five ...

Antica Pizzeria da Michele Corso Vitt. Emanuele, Napoli, 12 May 2015— O F COURSE I WRITE about our meals just about every day; I’ve been do...

Corso Vittorio Emanuele, May 12, 2015— O UR BUILDING is on the right in the photo, to the right of the entrance to the funicular: the se...

Corso Vittorio Emanuele, May 9, 2015— B ECAUSE STEEL CABLE has a certain elasticity, the car comes to its stop very slowly: then, once stop...

Corso Vittorio Emanuele, May 8, 2015— I DO NOT NECESSARILY recommend you see the Museo Nazionale Archeologico this way. A four-year-old ...

Corso Vittorio Emanuele, May 7, 2015— A month in Italy 1: Arrival in Naples I T WAS A LONG flight, and tiring. Nearly eighty, we don’t ...