At one end of our Piazza there is a church – La Santa Croce. At the other end is the ‘Commune’ (The government building) The church is about 200 years old. The locals tend not to get married in the […]
The More Things Change, The More They Change
The town I live in was a market town a thousand years ago and we still have a market in the piazza at least once a week. I first came here, for a six year visit, about thirty years ag0. […]
“Money Talks, Nobody Walks”…or “Beauty Is As Beauty Does”
I went with my wife into Florence the other day. (About a 35 minute drive.) She wanted to buy some soap, or perfume, or something like that. I’m a man, a real man – and I do not care about […]
Mona Lisa Slept Here – And I Know Why
You know how several places in the North East of the States – through to Virginia – they advertise: “George Washington Slept Here?”. Well, there is a similar sort of thing going on in my area of Tuscany with […]
Once Upon A Time In A Small Tuscan Town
See that statue standing in our Piazza? (photo above). He is Verrazzano, the famous explorer…discovered the Bay of New York and a lot of the East Coast of the U.S. in the early 1500’s. His family was one of the […]