The past year was a fantastic one for my company, Feast Travel. I also published a Thatch Guide for 3 Days in Naples and a Shopper’s Guide to Arthur Avenue, Little Italy, in the Bronx.
You seem to be hitting a lot of spots I'm aching to visit. I'm heading for Venice for 2 week in October, but my people are Southern. In fact, I also come from Sicilian immigrant butchers. Well, one anyway.
I have not! I remember going to Europe when I was 19 and my grandmother INSISTING I go no further south than Rome and definitely not to Sicily because a) she battled a purse snatcher and b) one of our family names is Gambino. I obeyed and she did some magic to protect me from the Evil Eye.
A lot in the south has changed for the better. (And frankly a lot in northern Italy has changed for the worse.) I have no doubt it will be a life changing experience.
I hope to see you in Venice! (The Biennale is in my backyard 😉)
Yes!
You seem to be hitting a lot of spots I'm aching to visit. I'm heading for Venice for 2 week in October, but my people are Southern. In fact, I also come from Sicilian immigrant butchers. Well, one anyway.
Have you been south yet? It's home, you know.
I have not! I remember going to Europe when I was 19 and my grandmother INSISTING I go no further south than Rome and definitely not to Sicily because a) she battled a purse snatcher and b) one of our family names is Gambino. I obeyed and she did some magic to protect me from the Evil Eye.
But a) She's dead, b) I don't carry a purse, and c) My last name is clearly not Gambino.
I'll probably be okay.
A lot in the south has changed for the better. (And frankly a lot in northern Italy has changed for the worse.) I have no doubt it will be a life changing experience.