After our boat trip along the Brenta River from Padova to Venice, we decided to spend a few days in…
Padova (or Padua): Giotto frescoes and an historic Botanical Garden- A Day Trip from Milan
As Italy continued to open up its regions after the Coronavirus shutdown, we left the Lombardy region to visit nearby…
Il Burchiello: A tour of the Venetian Villas along the Brenta River
Shortly after we arrived in Milan, I saved a scrap of paper with the name of a river tour that…
The Wine and Food of the Piedmont Region
Before we got locked down due to the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020, we took a glorious trip to the Piedmont…
McMahons in Confinement: Perspectives from Week 4-Diary of a Day
It is Monday, March 23, and we have (once again) awakened to new restrictions. Now we are not permitted to…
McMahons in Confinement: Perspectives from Week 4-Italy in a nationwide lockdown
On Sunday March 9,2020, less than 24 hours after we returned to Milan from America, we awoke to the news…
McMahons in Confinement: Perspectives from Week 4- A Look Back to the Beginning
It feels a bit strange reflecting back to well over a month ago when we left Milan for the coastal…
Corona Confinement Continues: Hamsterkäufe is the word of the day!
Now that Spain, France and the United States have followed Italy’s lead and implemented modified conditions of confinement, scores of…
Settling into CoronaConfinement!
Becky sent me this video of a couple living in Milan like we are, explaining what it’s like to be…
Corona Confinement in Milan!
Day one of Corona Confinement in Milan and we took a morning walk to the nearby supermarket to stock up…