Tag: italy

  • On travel books and retail therapy

    If you’ve been reading this blog long enough, you’d know that I am a bit of a shopaholic and a sucker for bargains. My recent addiction though, are travel books. Now, I love to read. I love books. However, I’m not as fond about buying them. For one thing, I am not the most careful…

  • A land far, far away

    I want to go to Italy. I want to go not because of the culture, the history, not even because of the fashion. Well, they are part of the reason, but what really inspired me to want to visit Italy are books that doesn’t even have any pictures of Italy in it. The first one…

  • See David rise again

    Photo credit: Lorenzo Galassi / AP via MSNBC.com FLORENCE, Italy – Visitors to the Bargello museum in Florence will be able to see restorers at work removing centuries of dirt from Donatello’s “David” starting Tuesday, officials said. The 15th-century bronze nude is being restored for the first time, said museum director Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi. New…