A Writer In Italy - travel, books, art and life
A Podcast about Italy, travel, writing, books, gardens and food.
Celebrates creative living, beautiful conversations and the journeys we need to make along the way.
Interest in slow living, slow food, creativity, art, cooking, books and ultimately living the good life!
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 119
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Buying a Holiday Home in Umbria with Jaclyn Beagley
"The money was always for a dream of sorts, an Italian dream, and now it's one we get to keep living" - Jac Beagley
Welcome to Episode #119:
Many of us dreaming about a home in Italy, a place to enjoy …
The Italian Soul with Judith Valente
"Italy taught me to readjust my focus" - Judith Valente, The Italian Soul
Today I talk with Author Judith Valente about her recent book The Italian Soul - How to Savour the Full Joys of Life.
In Judit…
Becoming Mariella, a Sicilian Book Journey with Janet Constantino
"If you could write about anything you want to write about what would it be?"....
Welcome to Episode #117:
I am excited to introduce you to Janet’s Constantino’s beautiful debut fiction novel 'Becoming…
On the Beauty & Necessity of Creative Action in Changing Times
"What we can be in control of we should be, especially when it comes to creativity" - Tracey Emin, Strozzi Gallery Florence - Documentary
This podcast share has been percolating for some time. Over t…
There is just Something About Italy - from the Piazza della Repubblica, Roma
"I adore the spirit of Rome" - Michelle Johnston, In the Shadow of a Cypress - An Italian Adventure
Welcome to Episode #115:
More and more I realise there is just something about Italy. This podcast is…
In Rome, Lost but Happy....
"The brittle crust off the present fractures; my feet sink into the quicksand of antiquity" - Anthony Doerr, Four Seasons in Rome
Welcome to Episode #114,
A spontaneous moment sipping an Aperol Spritz …
In Venice - Somewhere between a Macchiato and a Grignolino
"Sometimes you just have to move forward and lead the way" - Michelle Johnston
Welcome to Episode #112,
From the Campo Sofia between the gondole and the Strada Nova while sipping a macchiato I share so…
A Florentine Cafe & Musings on Women and Art in Italy
"Solitude is a place I like to go" - Tracey Emin
Welcome to Episode #113:
Today I share some beautiful moments in Bologna and Florence while sitting at a cafe close to Mercato Centrale in the centro st…
In Italy…. Reflections from Lake Garda
"Now & again I am able to live expansively, to feel expansive, with nothing & no one to do it for. Then I am happy, or happier than otherwise"
April 18, 1951 Patricia Highsmith, Her Diaries and Noteb…
In Tuscany with Nadia Fragnito
"We travel not to escape life, but for life to not escape us"
Welcome to Episode #110:
Italy beckons...
Today Nadia and I talk travel moments and her soulful Tuscany Cooking Retreat in Tuscany this yea…
Bringing Italy Home
"Does the ever- evolving desire for beauty at home derive from a super sense of conviviality?" - Frances Mayes, A Place in the World
Welcome to Episode #109:
Some of the most delicious parts of this jo…
Piemonte - The Secret that Needs to be Told, with Bailey Alexander
"It's about the treasure beneath our feet, it's about the land..." - Bailey Alexander
Welcome to Episode #108:
Bailey Alexander lived in the region of Piemonte Italy in the small village of Loazzolo fo…
Tabula Rasa - Tips & Tricks to Start Writing that Book (or keep going)!
"The only joy in the world is to begin" - Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living
Welcome to Episode #107:
The writing life is full of possibilities and paradoxes, yet some times you need some tips and …
An Italian Farmhouse in Piemonte and a Book - 'Pinch Me' with Barbara Boyle
"It was always in my heart" - Pinch Me, Waking up in a 300-Year-Old Italian Farmhouse by Barbara Boyle
Welcome to Episode #106,
Barbara shares her book ‘Pinch Me - Waking up in a 300-Year-Old Italian F…
The Art of Creative Living & Life Lessons
"You actually have permission to orient your life according to your nature rather than according to your culture and what you were taught was expected of you" - Elizabeth Gilbert, Living an Imperfect…
Appetito: The life, Soul and Tastes of Italian Home Cooking with Cookbook Author Alison Ranwell
"There's an immense amount of love in Italian food, and I believe this is the key ingredient that makes it stand out from the rest: a love of good food, love for those at your table, and a love for …
In Bocca al Lupo - Celebrating over 100 Episodes
"My motive was simple and hedonistic: I was looking for beauty" - Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
Welcome to Episode #103
I have mused over limoncello, Liguria, Milano and Roma, the streets of Genov…
Mamma Will Travel - Reflections on Solo Travel, Motherhood, Self Trust & the Creative Process
"Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as indis…
Only in Naples, Adventures in Italy - Part 3
"The city is beautiful at night. There's a danger but also a freedom" - Erri de Luca, The Day Before Happiness
Welcome to Episode #101:
Today I go on another travel adventure and share some of the sto…
Paradise Found, Ischia - Adventures in Italy, Part 2
"Perhaps in Italy, surrounded by beauty and history, we shed the layers of who we think we're supposed to be and rediscover the essence of who we truly are" - Erica Simone
Welcome to Episode #100:
Toda…