What the Romans Eat for Pizza
He wore a collared SS Lazio shirt tucked beneath his round belly, a sweatband on his wrist, and three pairs of glasses stacked on his…
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The Roman Pastas: Four Dishes, One City, No Substitutes
There are four pasta dishes that belong specifically to Rome, and to nowhere else in Italy. Each one tells you exactly where you are. Their…
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From Overload to Awe in Vatican City
Vatican City contains the greatest concentration of human artistic achievement on earth. It also contains, on any given morning, thirty thousand other people who know…
How to Visit Vatican City
Vatican City is the world's smallest country — an independent city-state entirely surrounded by Rome, home to the Pope, the Catholic Church's central administration, and…
Florence: The City That Rewards the Unhurried
Florence concentrates. Where Rome sprawls and Paris unfolds in layers, Florence compresses everything into a walkable density that rewards patience and punishes the itinerary that tries to see it all. Two nights was enough to understand why the city earns its reputation — and to begin to see past it.
Geneva in One Evening
The train out of Barcelona had been canceled. That single fact rerouted an entire day — and turned Geneva, always planned as an overnight transit stop, into something we had to earn. What one evening in a city of precision and quiet elegance offers, possibly more than you'd expect.
Barcelona: Arriving Into Catalonia’s Crisis
Somewhere between Valencia and Barcelona, my phone rang a few times. I let it go. But it wasn't the routine coordination I had assumed. We…
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The Eiffel Tower: What the City Rejected, Then Claimed
We had been here before, Aaron and I, in a different Paris — before the fence, before the glass walls, before the security lines. That…
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Belgium: The Country That Contains Two Countries
The train from Breda was not what we had planned. Belgium, it turned out, was more than we had anticipated either — a small country with two languages, two cultures, and a particular dry humor about holding both together. A week based in Brussels, moving outward by rail into Flanders and Wallonia.
Yosemite Spring
Winter Deluge Enhanced the Beauty of this Natural Treasure Original article on Medium Yosemite Valley — photo by Caden Giaudrone Wet Winter February 2017 — according to reports, this was…