We are often traveling in Europe at the time of my birthday and every year that happens, PJ asks where I would like to celebrate. Usually it will be the Pont de l’Ouysse in the Dordogne or the Crispol in Vézelay, but this year I wanted to do something different. In 2015 when we went […]
In a world where what passes for news are articles about the megalomaniac Donald Trump, the Kardashians, and the Jenners, we occasionally find something worth consideration. On August 25 a funeral mass was celebrated in the Italian town of Montefortino at the chiesa della Madonna dell’Ambro. The recipient of the mass was a Capuchin friar, […]
We have learned one clear lesson so far on this trip – photographing churches in Italy is a completely different experience than photographing them in France. In France, most of the time we enter, set up and spend the next three hours shooting to our hearts’ content. If anyone approaches us, it is usually to […]
A couple of days ago we headed to Florence to meet PJ’s brother Mark in the Tuscan capital for three days. We decided to take the old road between Ravenna and Firenze through the mountainous Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi. This road took us across the Apennines mountains where we came across the Benedictine monastery […]
Last Thanksgiving, PJ and I were dining with our good friend Diane Quaid, a hardy solo traveller who ranges across oceans and continents without a concern. Italy, China, Tibet, and Scotland are among her most recent adventures. At dinner that evening, Diane was talking about all the places she plans to see before she’s through. […]
Mary and John McKean have founded a company called Cognoscenti Travel. John is an architectural historian who has been part of the Via Lucis community for several years now. Having followed the setup of their company, we are pleased to see that their offerings are public now. They describe Cognoscenti as follows: “We are a […]
The holiday season has been very intense for us but we have started to plan for our next trip to Europe in May and June. There will be some very familiar places where we will repeat our photographic exploits, but also an entirely new (for us) experience. We are going to Italy! PJ and I […]
Prades ha quasi sempre fatto parte dei miei pensieri: i miei genitori possedevano un vinile consumatissimo di Pablo Casals che suonava al festival musicale a lui intitolato. Casals creò il festival nel 1950, e vi suonò con alcuni dei più valenti strumentisti classici dell’epoca: lo sapevo per aver letto centinaia di volte la copertina del […]
Negli anni in cui stava allevando suo figlio Ludovico (che sarebbe presto diventato noto come Ludovico il Pio o Ludovico il Benevolo), Carlo Magno gli assegnò in eredità il regno di Aquitania e quattro ville gallo-romane come palazzi, chiedendogli di vivere in ciascuna di esse per tre mesi all’anno ad eccezione dei periodi passati lontano […]
