Category: Places

Home Search: Lucca, Italy. Dream Pads to Money Pits, Here’s What We’ve Seen.

December 4, 2020

A LOOK BACK: CHASING A DREAMIf you love architecture, design and property voyeurism (and, who doesn’t really?) then this story is for you. Our aim with this post is to provide a peek into the wildly different range of possibilities when looking to purchase within a historic city center like Lucca. These particular properties reflect … More Home Search: Lucca, Italy. Dream Pads to Money Pits, Here’s What We’ve Seen.

Don’t Miss Our House Hunters International Episode From Lucca, Italy!

November 11, 2020

Well, it’s about time, friends! Our House Hunters International episode, which filmed last November in Lucca, Italy, now has an airdate!!  Friends in the US, check out HGTV this Wednesday and Thursday. For friends elsewhere, check your HGTV listings! Friends in Italy, there’s a bonus: we should be dubbed in Italian when it airs there. (Allora)! … More Don’t Miss Our House Hunters International Episode From Lucca, Italy!

Tales from a Traveling Life: The Sublime, Silly and Downright Strange. I: Laundry Days

October 22, 2020

Raise your hand if you remember that bygone pleasure once known as the cocktail party? Those fabulous occasions when you gathered with friends, brushing elbows as you imbibed in favorite beverages, chatting about the day’s happenings, mundane to asinine; culminating with toasts in promise of doing it all over again, soon. Well, since none of … More Tales from a Traveling Life: The Sublime, Silly and Downright Strange. I: Laundry Days

Italian Food Brings Us All to the Table. Here Are Our “Best Eats” in Lucca

September 16, 2020

300. That’s the estimated number of small businesses shuttered, either temporarily or permanently, in the province of Lucca, thus far on this rollercoaster ride named 2020. Naturally, the loss of so many shops, restaurants, bars and agencies of all sorts is deeply scarring for any community. In Italy, it’s particularly crushing considering the bureaucratic-gymnastics required … More Italian Food Brings Us All to the Table. Here Are Our “Best Eats” in Lucca