A Writer In Italy - travel, books, art and life
A Podcast about Italy, travel, writing, books, gardens and food.
Celebrates creative living, beautiful conversations and the journeys we need to make along the way.
Interest in slow living, slow food, creativity, art, cooking, books and ultimately living the good life!
Episodes
116 episodes
On the Beauty & Necessity of Creative Action in Changing Times
"What we can be in control of we should be, especially when it comes to creativity" - Tracey Emin, Strozzi Gallery Florence - Documentary This podcast share has been percolating for some time. Over the year I have found myself musin...
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Season 10
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Episode 116
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42:57
There is just Something About Italy - from the Piazza della Repubblica, Roma
"I adore the spirit of Rome" - Michelle Johnston, In the Shadow of a Cypress - An Italian AdventureWelcome to Episode #115:More and more I realise there is just something about Italy. This podcast is a culmination of an eventful s...
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Season 10
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Episode 115
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33:06
In Rome, Lost but Happy....
"The brittle crust off the present fractures; my feet sink into the quicksand of antiquity" - Anthony Doerr, Four Seasons in RomeWelcome to Episode #114,A spontaneous moment sipping an Aperol Spritz sitting at a caffe/wine bar on ...
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Season 10
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Episode 114
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22:58
A Florentine Cafe & Musings on Women and Art in Italy
"Solitude is a place I like to go" - Tracey EminWelcome to Episode #113:Today I share some beautiful moments in Bologna and Florence while sitting at a cafe close to Mercato Centrale in the centro storico of Fire...
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Season 10
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Episode 113
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45:38
In Venice - Somewhere between a Macchiato and a Grignolino
"Sometimes you just have to move forward and lead the way" - Michelle JohnstonWelcome to Episode #112,From the Campo Sofia between the gondole and the Strada Nova while sipping a macchiato I share some travel stories and adventure...
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Season 10
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Episode 112
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40:25
In Italy…. Reflections from Lake Garda
"Now & again I am able to live expansively, to feel expansive, with nothing & no one to do it for. Then I am happy, or happier than otherwise" April 18, 1951 Patricia Highsmith, Her Diaries and NotebooksWelcome to Epi...
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Season 10
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Episode 111
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59:13
In Tuscany with Nadia Fragnito
"We travel not to escape life, but for life to not escape us"Welcome to Episode #110:Italy beckons... Today Nadia and I talk travel moments and her soulful Tuscany Cooking Retreat in Tuscany this year, see links below ...
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Season 10
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Episode 110
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1:06:15
Bringing Italy Home
"Does the ever- evolving desire for beauty at home derive from a super sense of conviviality?" - Frances Mayes, A Place in the WorldWelcome to Episode #109:Some of the most delicious parts of this journey over the many years of lo...
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Season 9
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Episode 109
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31:10
Piemonte - The Secret that Needs to be Told, with Bailey Alexander
"It's about the treasure beneath our feet, it's about the land..." - Bailey AlexanderWelcome to Episode #108:Bailey Alexander lived in the region of Piemonte Italy in the small village of Loazzolo for seven years with her husband ...
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Season 9
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Episode 108
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1:11:33
Tabula Rasa - Tips & Tricks to Start Writing that Book (or keep going)!
"The only joy in the world is to begin" - Cesare Pavese, This Business of LivingWelcome to Episode #107:The writing life is full of possibilities and paradoxes, yet some times you need some tips and tricks on how to move forward, ...
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Season 9
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Episode 107
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35:10
An Italian Farmhouse in Piemonte and a Book - 'Pinch Me' with Barbara Boyle
"It was always in my heart" - Pinch Me, Waking up in a 300-Year-Old Italian Farmhouse by Barbara BoyleWelcome to Episode #106,Barbara shares her book ‘Pinch Me - Waking up in a 300-Year-Old Italian Farmhouse’ and the tale of trave...
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Season 9
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Episode 106
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39:30
The Art of Creative Living & Life Lessons
"You actually have permission to orient your life according to your nature rather than according to your culture and what you were taught was expected of you" - Elizabeth Gilbert, Living an Imperfectly Perfect Life - In Conversation with Sarah ...
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Season 9
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Episode 105
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46:47
Appetito: The life, Soul and Tastes of Italian Home Cooking with Cookbook Author Alison Ranwell
"There's an immense amount of love in Italian food, and I believe this is the key ingredient that makes it stand out from the rest: a love of good food, love for those at your table, and a love for your territory and its produce. In Italy...
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Season 9
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Episode 104
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43:56
In Bocca al Lupo - Celebrating over 100 Episodes
"My motive was simple and hedonistic: I was looking for beauty" - Alain de Botton, The Art of TravelWelcome to Episode #103I have mused over limoncello, Liguria, Milano and Roma, the streets of Genova and once wrote a love lette...
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Season 9
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Episode 103
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30:50
Mamma Will Travel - Reflections on Solo Travel, Motherhood, Self Trust & the Creative Process
"Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordina...
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Season 9
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Episode 102
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49:14
Only in Naples, Adventures in Italy - Part 3
"The city is beautiful at night. There's a danger but also a freedom" - Erri de Luca, The Day Before HappinessWelcome to Episode #101: Today I go on another travel adventure and share some of the story of my Naples travel ex...
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43:13
Paradise Found, Ischia - Adventures in Italy, Part 2
"Perhaps in Italy, surrounded by beauty and history, we shed the layers of who we think we're supposed to be and rediscover the essence of who we truly are" - Erica SimoneWelcome to Episode #100:Today on the podcast we go on a pe...
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48:03
Roman Holiday - Italy Adventures.... Part 1
"I adore the spirit of Rome" - In the Shadow of a Cypress - An Italian Adventure Welcome to Episode #99:Today we go on an adventure in Rome… I share some travel adventures and a few details on staying in Monti, Roma. I...
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Season 9
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Episode 99
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1:25:55
My Book Journey, Primavera and Stories to Tell….
"The travel journey is always an interesting paradox. To spend time navigating, being, seeing, collecting and contemplating. And haphazardly wondering about the next step. Yet, to not get carried away, or in front of yourself that you miss the ...
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Season 9
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Episode 98
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41:17
The Next Chapter - Book Dates, Italy Adventures, An Extract of my Book “Cortona”…
"So this is it. I am thirty nine years old. I am sitting at a table in a medieval piazza with a black moleskine journal. I am sipping a glass of Chianti Classico. I stare at the menu with none other than Luca Signorelli on the cover. I...
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Season 9
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Episode 97
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41:51
Children of the Volcano with Travel Writer and Author Ros Belford
"Time in Italy seemed less linear than it was at home, more of a space waiting to be filled with whatever delights the day might bring – exquisite miniature pastries behind the etched glass of an art nouveau window, a sliver of cantaloupe on a ...
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Season 9
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Episode 96
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51:59
Strange Fruit, Italian Lessons, Dreaming of Sicily
"Perfection is static, and I am in full progress" - Anais NinWelcome to Episode #95:Today I go on a whimsical journey through my process! Reading and working on my book. The book is done! Yet, I am most keen to record an au...
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Season 9
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Episode 95
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25:41
Rome’s Last Noble Palace, Cafe Culture and Great Writing Advice with Fiction Author Kimberly Sullivan
"Be kind to yourself and just get going, because even if you are just writing a little bit, for a few hours a week - it adds up" - Kimberly SullivanWelcome to Episode #94:Today I have a conversation with fiction writer Kimberly Su...
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Season 9
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Episode 94
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49:21
Writing our lives - A Poetic Ramble and Musings
"One's destination is never a place but a new way of looking at things" - Henry MillerWelcome to Episode #93:Today a share a meander through the creative landscape of writing and my process and the discoveries on the creative jou...
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Season 9
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Episode 93
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38:38
The Flavours of Liguria with Food Writer Enrica Monzani
"Ligurian cuisine is often defined as a "poor" cuisine, of humble, rough origins because it was born in the homes of fisherman and farmers who had only simple, seasonal and low-value ingredients available. Yet, it is also sophisticated due to t...
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Season 9
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Episode 92
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41:52