10 Things You Should Do in Rome (With Kids or Without)
Headed to La Bella Italia? Here’s a few things you should do in Rome. Get a Seat in the Sistine Chapel As befits the headquarters...
Author: Theodora
Art and Alchemy in Florence
It would be remiss to visit Florence without: a) eating a steak as big as your head b) doing the art thang, c) crossing the...
We Learn to Make Pasta in Bologna
“My great-grandfather bought this farm just before the Second World War,” Federica explains. “He was an industrialist, importing vegetables from Egypt, and he could see...
Some Notes on Non-Communication – Not Dead Yet
Blogging is a curious beast. And, picking up a blog when you haven’t posted in a while is a bit like picking up the phone...
The Unknown Artists of Ravenna
I’ve not always liked my name — one of my first acts on hitting puberty was to rebrand myself from “Theodora” to “Theo”, an innovation...
A Whirlwind Tour of Italy’s Food Museums
The last bastion of the four-hour lunchbreak, the home of Slow Food, the birthplace of the world’s first University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy is almost...
A Sexy, Sexy Shop
After a slow start – an automatic handbrake? What fresh hell is THIS? – we take the slow road from Pisa to Modena, and it’s...
Pisa — Not, Actually, Horrid at All
Bologna is almost entirely shut for Ferragosto, AKA August. So, rather envious of the Italian approach to life, with its six week vacations, four hour...
Best Things to Do in Amsterdam with Kids
The great cliches of travel to Amsterdam, The Netherlands’ first city, are firmly adult-oriented: coffee shops, populated almost entirely by bored-looking tourists, and the Red...
The Cheapest Place to Stay in Italy? (And Some Other Ways to Do Venice on a Budget)
When it comes to Venice, if you don’t have a spare kidney to sell or, at least a spare infant to people-traffic, you’re unlikely to...