This taxi driver, who got me from the hill town of Assisi to its valley-floor train station with six minutes or so to spare for my train, is a huge Seattle Supersonics fan. I can’t bear to tell him that the Sonics were sold a long time ago.
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Sitting on a balcony overlooking Siena’s Il Campo, which hosts Europe’s wildest horse race twice a year, my tour-guide friend Roberto Bechi tells me about his city’s Palio pandemonium.
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There’s something enchanting about Florence at midnight. Here, after a long evening of checking out restaurants for my new Italy guidebook, my research assistant Karin and I finish the day on what’s considered the first square of the Renaissance, Piazza della S. S. Annunziata, with the delicate arcaded porch of Brunelleschi’s Hospital of the Innocents. Downtown Florence is essentially traffic-free now, and it feels completely safe.
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Imagine being all alone with one of the best cameramen in the world to film one of the best paintings in the world. Here with Karel Bauer and Simon Griffith, we are busy in the Uffizi Gallery filming Botticelli’s Allegory of Spring.
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When in Florence, I like to enjoy a quiet moment all alone with my buddy, David.
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