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
Casalvento: House of the Wind with Author and Winemaker Gudrun Cuillo
"I thought I had the perfect life in New York, but fate had something different in mind for me. I've fallen in love with this place and what it has to offer" - Casalvento: House of the Wind by Gu…
Emiko Davies - Tuscan Life and Enoteca Marilu
"We will cook together, you’ll don an apron and get your hands dirty, learning about local traditions on the way. We eat and drink together, tasting wines chosen by Marco. Afterwards, in the late af…
R is for Rome - The Writers Life with Michelle Ciani
"R is for Rome. Roma is my Lupa, the She-Wolf. She is mother and my muse" - Michelle Ciani, Letters from Rome
Welcome to Episode #77:
Michelle Ciani lives in Rome, Italy. Through her writing and …
In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy with Jeff Biggers
“Far from a fleeting moment in history, or a stack of stones, the open museum of Sardinia recounted a story of foundations; a story of birth and rebirth, of endurance and resilience, and re-use, and …
The Road Less Traveled - Eat Pray Love - A Book Journey
"What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a world view that excludes nothing?” - Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love
Can a…
Italian Inspiration - An Invitation....
“And I do believe that Italy really purifies and ennobles all who visit her. She is the school as well as the playground of the world.” – E. M. Forster
Welcome to Episode #74
Q.. Do you have a story …
Less is More, Except when it comes to Books! With Laura Botten...
"The Thing about Rome is that it always manages to give you something special" - Luca Spaghetti, Un Amico Italiano - Eat Pray Love in Rome
Welcome to Episode #73:
Italy seems to find its way into many …
The Art of Devotion and the Black Madonna with Stephanie Georgieff
"The Black Madonna represents a time of direct connection. She is the spiritual connector. She is the energy behind creation. We are to bring our thinking into our heart and have this influence our…
Drink Wine and Be Beautiful with Kimberly Sullivan
"It was only decades later, in my little house here in the shadow of the Apennines, that I was completely free to forge my own path" Shadow of the Apennines, Kimberly Sullivan
Welcome to Episode 71:
K…
Art and Love: Peggy Guggenheim (Part 2)
"In writing about Peggy, it's important to listen to one's own instincts. Don't listen to critics. What do they know? What one should say about Peggy is, simply, that she did it. That no matter what…
Art & Love: Peggy Guggenheim (Part 1)
“I have never been in a city that gave me the same sense of freedom” - Peggy Guggenheim, Out of this Century: Confessions of an Art Addict
Welcome to Episode #69:
Are you dreaming of visiting Venice an…
Love in a Tuscan Kitchen with Sheryl Ness (Part 2)
"The old cypress trees along the ancient noble roads stand tall as if to welcome you into their home" - Sheryl Ness, Love in a Tuscan Kitchen
Welcome to Episode #68,
This week I share Part 2 of my co…
Love in a Tuscan Kitchen with Sheryl Ness (Part 1)
"Everything around me gave me a feeling that I was at home, from the foods to the people and the unique landscape. I was falling in love" - Sheryl Ness, Love in a Tuscan Kitchen
Welcome to Episode …
Sumptuous Venice with Margie Miklas
“The appeal of this floating city built on stilts in a lagoon is real. Venice remains a place always beckoning me to return. Far from perfect, this island shaped like a fish entices me” - Margie M…
Windows into Italy: Lets visit Padova in the Veneto
"And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more" - Pico Iyer, 'Why We Travel'
Welcome to Episode #65:
The thing is Italy has …
Book Lovers & Artists Unite…Here are a few of my favourite things
Welcome to Episode #64:
I couldn’t resist but share a few books and artists that are truely inspiring me and feeding my spirit in the realm of Muse Italia.
Enjoy,
The Art of Excellent Products: Enchanti…
Have you ever wondered why you feel attracted to a certain place? Let’s talk Locational Astrology with Lynnette from Cosmic Moves
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware“ - Henry Miller
Welcome to Episode #63
This podcast share is a great window into my world…
Have y…
Seventeen Cypress and a Life to Create
"Nature accompanies me, exalts me" - Henri Matisse
A Serenade to a Sunday.... Reflections on a house and a garden.
"I buy another five cypress. I work hard, water, pray, read them poetry. I listen t…
Artist's Notebooks: For the Poets and the Dreamers.....
"I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one" -
Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words
In a day and age where the universe is at our finger tips and we can meander th…
A Musing on Lemons, Life and Limoncello......The Recipe for Limoncello Included....
“Do you know the land where the lemon trees grow, in darkened leaves the gold-oranges glow, a soft wind blows from the pure blue sky, the myrtle stands mute, and the bay-tree high? Do you know it w…