I Love Touring Italy – Trieste

If you are looking for a European tourist destination, consider the Friuli-Venezia Giuli region of northeastern Italy, bordering on Austria and Slovenia. For simplicity’s sake we abbreviate the region’s full name to Friuli. Depending on your interests, Friuli may be an ideal vacation spot. You can get classic Italian food and other specialties, and wash…

Venice After Our Star Princess Cruise

When John Lazzatti and I reached Venice at the end of our Star Princess cruise, the ship sailed majestically up the lagoon past San Marco Square, and was the biggest structure in Venice while it was there. It docked south of the city, and we went back and forth to San Marco on a shuttle…

How to Build a Capsule Closet

The  capsule  wardrobe single-handedly turns around all of most glaring fashion’s faults from crimes of excess, to notions that fashion people have glitter for brains and that in this flailing economy, there is no room for awesome clothes in our closets. Before I go into dishing out simple tips on how to make a  capsule …