Italian culture, language, fashion, food, countryside, people… It’s all here.
Every month the folks at Pilot Guides - you know, the people behind fantastic travel shows like Globe Trekker and Planet Food - put out a new batch of travel shows that are available for downloading from their website. This means you’re able to watch just the shows you want, on your own time. This month, GlobeTrekkerTV has a feature on Italy - and it’s a festival I’ve heard about for years, though I’m not sure I’d have the guts to go myself…
Part of this month’s free preview of GlobeTrekkerTV offerings has Megan McCormick participating in the festival
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Usually, with the Italy Travel Guide here, I just write stuff because I like writing about Italy. The fact that people are reading what I’m writing is, well, a bonus. So I don’t often think about what others might think of this here site - until, that is, I see that someone has reviewed it.
I just came across the site Blogged because another Italy blog I read got a review on it. So, I thought I’d search for the Italy Logue and see what came up. Much to my surprise, it’s been reviewed already! I don’t know who submitted it or how it was found, or even who reviewed it. All I know is that it’s already on the site with a 7.5 rating (which equals “very good” apparently).
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This is just a quick post, because I wanted to get it up here before the contest I’m about to introduce you to ends this Friday. I was remiss in not telling you about it earlier, and I feel badly about that - especially because it’s a subject near and dear to my heart: Italian candy.
My friend Sara over at Ms. Adventures in Italy has written what she’s calling “An Introduction to Italian Candy,” but it seems way more than a simple introduction. She’s given you everything you need to authoritatively browse
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Pictures of Venice are almost instantly recognizable - the canals and the Venice gondolas are unique and completely photogenic, so it’s not surprising that every photographer and their brother has a collection of Venice pictures. And while I, as a lover of Venice, can look at pictures of the city for hours and still be sighing, most people are going to get bored with the umpteenth shot of gondolas and little arched bridges. But I think even the most jaded viewer will find something of interest in “VenicExposed,” by Luca Campigotto.
Campigotto is from Venice - so he’s spent a lifetime seeing the city. He’s particularly fond of architectural photography, and he’s chosen to highlight Venice’s buildings and structures in a way that makes them stand out: he’s photographed them at night. Never has Venice looked so utterly deserted than in Campigotto’s photographs, but it’s not an unpleasant sight. It’s eerie to see those empty canals and dark, fast-moving water, but it’s an inviting kind of eerie.
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I love taking photographs, and I almost always have a camera on my person somewhere - no matter where I am. When I’m in Italy especially, I’m pretty trigger-happy. Well, the kind folks at BootsnAll, which hosts this Italy Travel Guide, have produced a way for me to share my Italy photos with you. It’s still in development, but here’s a sneak peek of the Italy Logue photos page.
Unfortunately, I’ve got albums and albums full of photos of Italy from the days before I owned a digital camera, so I’ve either got to …
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I want to say up front here that I’m not a tech expert. For instance, I’m finally learning some HTML, only to discover that it’s an almost entirely outmoded form of writing code for these here internets (you know, that series of tubes)… But even though I’m not especially tech-savvy, I can read reports on the traffic the Italy Logue is getting. So I know how many of you are out there, reading what I’m writing about traveling in Italy - and we figured, “Hey, maybe all those Italy-lovin’ people might want to talk to each other now and then! Let’s make a forum for them!”
So, here you are, folks - a brand new Italy Logue Forum just for you. You’ll see a few Italophiles I know have helped me seed the forum with a few questions and answers here and there, so that you can see how it looks when it’s working, but there’s obviously lots of room for more topics and wisdom. And before you click over eagerly and start posting (which I encourage you to do!), let me give you the grand tour.
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Well, it’s official. The 61st Italian government since World War II has finally collapsed. Prime Minister Romano Prodi lost a vote of confidence on Thursday, and former PM Silvio Berlusconi is calling for a new election. Italy’s President, Giorgio Napolitano, has said he won’t call new elections until the election law is reformed. The current law (which I don’t understand, so don’t ask) was put into place by Berlusconi back before the last elections in 2006, and it apparently makes it nigh to impossible to create and keep a solid majority in the Senate. People on all sides of politics in Italy seem to agree that change is needed in the law, and some reformers are even encouraging the Italian people to boycott a vote if one is held before the law is changed.
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When I first read about the trash problem in Naples last Spring, I figured it was a short-term problem. I mean, who could live in a city where they kept having piles of garbage flooding the streets? Well, apparently the people in Naples can. Or, more to the point, the people in Naples are stuck living in a city where the local government can’t get its act together to figure out how to keep piles of garbage from flooding the streets.
If the photos I’m seeing out of Naples last week are any indication, the trash problem never really went away last year - it just got worse as time went on. Depending on where you look, in fact, Naples is said to have had a garbage problem for the last 10-15 years. Just a few days ago there were still giant piles of garbage lining the roadways, with at least some of it being set on fire from time to time as well. (And although residents burning the trash does make it go away, the fires are likely to be emitting toxic smoke, which isn’t any better than having the garbage on the streets.) More recently, protesters have started demonstrating throughout Naples and calling for the resignation of the city’s Mayor - one group even held Sunday Mass in the street, surrounded by the city’s trash heaps.
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You may remember when I mentioned awhile ago that you could download and watch Globe Trekker shows on your own computer. Every month the kind folks at Globe Trekker let BootsnAll know what’s new with their programming, and this month I’m pleased to see that there’s a bit of Italy being offered!
Among the teaser clips you can watch for free, you’ll see Tyler Florence (yes, the Food Network Tyler Florence) hitting the wine trail in the north of Italy. Unlike the rest of us, who don’t have that kind of insider access, Tyler …
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I’m on my way back home today after a week in Milan, but the posts about Milan will continue for awhile - I’ve got lots of pictures left to share, and some more restaurant and gelateria recommendations, as well as tourist tips. I’ve had a great time here, meeting up with a couple of expat bloggers whose blogs I’ve been reading for awhile, putting some serious miles under my feet exploring a few interesting (and varied!) neighborhoods, tasting the local fare in a few different restaurants (both touristy and non-touristy) as well as enjoying …
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