I finally made it to what I consider to be the most beautiful villa on earth. This is a place I have seen in several movies: A Month on the Lake (with Vanessa Redgrave and Uma Thurman,1995), Casino Royale (a recent James Bond thriller, 2006), and Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (specifically […]

Luckily for me, I have a contact in the tiny little village of Livo, Italy. Judith is a fellow American who has lived in Livo for some 20 years, and who was willing to give me the grand tour. I will cover Livo in all its wonderful attributes and more about Judith in a separate […]

For many years now, I have heard from friends and colleagues, and I have read in travel magazines, books, and guidebooks, about places on this earth described as “a little slice of heaven”. I’ve spent a good bit of my travels over the last many years in search of such a place, and to some […]

Bellagio is a real place, a real town, on a real lake in Italy. Known as “The Pearl of the Lake”, Bellagio is definitely one of Lago di Como’s most beautiful villages with several grand villas, a vibrant and often crowded waterfront that goes from arcaded shops and restaurants in yellow and terra cotta hues […]