Will water wash Venice away?
My friend has a pair of polka-dot rain boots I'd like to be wearing if tides put Venice several inches under the sea while I'm walking its streets and alleyways. If "acqua alta," or high water, puts...
View ArticleAbu Dhabi’s Leaning Tower of Not Pisa
The Leaning Tower of Pisa leans by accident. The leaning tower of Abu Dhabi most certainly does not. Abu Dhabi’s Capital Gate tower, which is set to be completed by fall 2010, was just given the honor...
View ArticleGet Lost in the New Largest Maze in the World
Because I've edited so many adventure articles for HSW, when I think about navigating a maze, it's a survival scenario. If you can't find your way back out of the hedges, well, you'll need to pry up a...
View ArticleWatch your body language, travelers!
I don't care what Black Sabbath song comes raging over the loud speakers in Italy or Cuba, don't throw up your index and pinky fingers in a salute to heavy metal and expect to make any friends. In...
View ArticleHow to make olive oil
Most people come into contact with olives in one of three ways: There are the olives that go on pizzas and into into dinner entrees There are the olives (with pimentos) that go into martinis And there...
View ArticleThe World’s Teeniest, Tiniest Italian Restaurant
There's only one table at Solo per Due (translation "just for two"), a 250-euros-per-person restaurant located in Vacone, a small village in Central Italy, about an hour from Rome. So, it's sort of...
View ArticleWho poured salt on Milan?
As a fan of table salt, I was intrigued by photos of the new "Salt Mountain" recently poured into a large conical shape on the Piazza Duomo in Milan, Italy. True to its name, "Salt Mountain," an art...
View ArticleRiding in a Gondola in Venice
This post might be kind of weird because it's mostly going to be written by Charles Dickens. But I just think his description of a gondola ride in his 1846 travelogue "Pictures of Venice" is so...
View ArticleDeep-fried Goodness at Carnival
The delightful strips of deep-fried dough pictured at the right are called chiacchiere, and they're served during Carnival in Venice (happening right now!). In Italian, chiacchiere means "gossip,"...
View ArticleCave Accommodations in Matera, Italy
Want to stay in a CAVE DWELLING in southern Italy? Who doesn't? The stone homes of Old Matera, also called Sassi (translation, the Rocks), in the Basilicata region have been around for thousands of...
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