Today I returned to Brindisi after a week in Grecia Salentina, which is the Greek-influenced part of Puglia, just south of Lecce. It was an amazing week, not only to dip in to their music, myth, and history for an article (upcoming in Afar, www.afar.com), but to become acquainted … [Read more...]
Night of the Tarantula in Puglia
PUGLIA—Scorrano I am in Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot, a hot, arid place with crumbling stone walls, olive trees, cactus, and Baroque limestone buildings. The people in Puglia are friendly, open, and don’t have the sense of furbezza—distrust, wheeler-dealer scamming--that is … [Read more...]
Carry-on for two months in Europe!
Welcome to my new blog! I'll be sending dispatches from my two-month trip to Puglia and Sicily in Italy, and then on board a Lindblad National Geographic Explorer ship from St. Petersburg, through the Baltics, then around the coast of Europe to Lisbon. I'm at the airport, … [Read more...]