As I drove up from Holyoke this morning, there was a big back-up on the Deerfield exit off-ramp. Because we so rarely ever have traffic jams in our bucolic pocket of the world, I knew at once it was an accident. The statie who flew by me confirmed it. When […]

Today is a high energy day. I’ve got lots to think about and I’m feeling great. The first thing on my mind is an invitation I got yesterday, an answer to a dream I’ve had for a decade. It was from the Ministry of Trade for Colombia–an invitation to travel […]

I found this rack of public bikes right next to Bologna’s city offices. Another city, like Copenhagen, embracing the concept of putting out bikes for citizens to use for free. In Denmark, anyone can pop a coin into the rack and use a bike for about $3.65 a ride. In […]

Besides the more obvious benefits of being about to use a shorter line to check-in, and being able on some flights to actually lie down flat during a flight, the benefits of business class are the people you sit next to. We flew back from Bologna last night and I […]

Sometimes the people you travel with can give you as much interesting information as the local guides. We found this out every night at dinner when our friend Stefano Vaccara would share his thoughts about Italy over glasses of wine and bowls of pasta in Bologna. Our last night found […]

Today’s journey was on a crowded back road to the lovely town of Ravenna, near the Adriatic coast. Since it was Saturday, the autostrada was crowded so our driver chose to take us through small towns from Bologna. Ravenna once had more than 200 churches, we learned from our beautiful […]