Subject: Italy -- Description and travel (Keywords)

Travelling with friends and family is usually thought of as a privilege. In theory, anyway. In practice, it's more often about debating which sights to see, panicking over diminishing phone batteries and bickering over what to eat. Not much joy in that. But alone you can do as you please. You can...

The world's most beloved expert on la dolce vita takes readers along on the ultimate insider's tour across all 20 of Italy's iconic regions.

An tour of modern Italy that takes you behind the face it puts on for visitors and uncovers the far more complex, paradoxical true self. Alongside the historic cities and glorious countryside, there'll be stops at the places where the Italians reveal themselves in all their authentic glory: the a...

Berendt provides a tour behind the exquisite façade of the world's most beautiful historic city. With his background in journalism, Berendt is perfectly poised to gain access to private and unapproachable people, and persuade them to talk frankly to him.

'Puglia is a region I want to get to know intimately, to understand culture, life, history and geography, reflecting through the prism of the food that's put on the tables of locals and tourists, too. I'm reminded of my 20-year old self, scribbling in notebooks as I first travelled through Italy'...

Carlo Levi has depicted Rome at the height of its optimism & vitality, the heady days of postwar 'La Dolce Vita'. His descriptions bring to life the daily lives of the city's ordinary citizens, at work & at play.

In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her good friend Pen. In this playful diary of that trip, Athill recorded her observations and adventures - eating with (and paid for by) the hopeful men they meet on their travels, admiring ar...

This is Chris Harrison's hilarious and captivating story of falling in love with both bella Daniela and la bella Italia, leaving his Australian life for her sun-drenched Italian home and la dolce vita.

This is Chris Harrison's hilarious and captivating story of falling in love with both bella Daniela and la bella Italia, leaving his Australian life for her sun-drenched Italian home and la dolce vita.