Q&A

For those of you who don’t know, I often credit Frances Mayes for being the catalyst for changing my life, finding my passion and calling in my career and my love affair with Italy.  If it weren’t for her, Italy wouldn’t…

I am embarrassed to admit that I hadn’t heard of David Farley or his book until I saw him on a panel at a TBEX Travel Conference that I attended over the summer. And that’s a shame really.  After hearing…

If you love food, wine and Italy – we have a real treat for you today. Author of the book, Barolo – a story about his six months in the village of Barolo, Italy – drinking the wine of the…

Many of  you may know Judy Witts, otherwise known as the Divina Cucina.  But, do you really know her? Judy lives in Tuscany and her live revolves around food.  Cooking food, teaching classes about food, shopping for food, etc. In…

The launch-of-the-new-website-celebration continues with another interview and giveaway! Today, I am so excited to have another special guest. A big name in the Independent Travel genre- or in my humble opinion, the name in Independent Travel – none other than…

For those of you who don’t know Nan McElroy, she is an American expat living in Venice, Italy (jealous, maybe a little!). Matter of fact, her website is called Living Venice. How appropriate! I have had the pleasure of getting…

This Travel Tip Tuesday, Cherrye and I are both doing interviews with people in the Travel Industry.  You’ll have to wait until the end to find out who Cherrye is interviewing.  It’s sort of a surprise! But until then, let’s…

I am so excited to have Kathy McCabe, the founder of the award-winning newsletter, Dream of Italy, stopping by today! Kathy and I have partnered together before – in fact, you can see my contribution in her new FREE Christmas…

After a week of getting to know Miss Expatria better, and lots of entertaining comments, the time has come to announce the winner. I counted only comments made by readers- none of my own, none of Christine's replies. And according…