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
The Luberon: Place of Beauty and Stone
“The early-morning Easter Light, clean and clear as a polished sapphire, back-lit a ribbon of mist hovering over the Luberon plain. The almonds had burst into blossom and the cherries were hard on th…
The Call of Provence: Books, Gardens and Travel Adventures in the Luberon
“My motive was simple and hedonistic: I was looking for beauty” - Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
Welcome to another share of the travelogue series from Italy to France. This day we find ourselv…
French Appetites and Pleasures on the Riviera,…Antibes, Juan les Pins, Cannes, MFK Fisher
"On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half way between Marseille and the Italian Border, stands a large, proud, rose-coloured hotel. Deferential palms cool its flushed facade, and befo…
Le Train Bleu, the French Riviera, Monaco, Nice, and the Grand Vacation Continues...
“The glinting Mediterranean stretched off in the distance, and now the palm trees, beaches, and over built coastline of the Côte d’Azur loomed suddenly into view: Cannes…Juan-les-Pins…Antibes…and the…
The Enthusiastic Amateur, Too Many Cookbooks, Where to next & Do Italians Eat Pizza for Breakfast?!
“My library is an archive of longings” - Susan Sontag
Welcome to Episode #35
This weeks offering is a combination of the Good Life, Books, Food and More. The Italian Affair continues….
Happy Adventures…
Paola’s Istria - Recipes and Stories from the Hidden Heart of Italy, Slovenia and Croatia
"In food there are memories" - Paola Bacchia
Welcome to Episode #34:
There are many layers to this conversation with Cookbook Author and Photographer Paola Bacchia. Place, identity, home, migration, c…
Art and Life on the Midi, Antibes, Picasso, de Stael, Matisse
"When a painter is obsessed by a view or an idea, no wind, no elements can stop him" - Gustave de Stael
Welcome to Episode #33
This little foray into the south of France was a delight to write up once …
Italophilia: A Way of Life with Ishita Sood
“You may have the universe if I may have Italy”
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Welcome to Episode 32:
We are not the first and we will not be the last. The magnetic forces of Italy are powerful lu…
Italian Life with Cinzia Ferri
“We do not remember days, we remember moments” - Diary Entry, 28th July…
Cesare Pavese -
This Business of Living, A Diary - 1935-1950
Welcome to Episode 31:
This is a lovely chat with Cinzia about lif…
Postcards from the French Riveria, Antibes, Picasso and a little Carpe Diem...
"When I realised that each morning I would see this light again, I could not believe my luck"
Henri Matisse, 1917
Welcome to Episode #30, Antibes, France
On the 13th March 2019, a family of five travele…
A Nostalgic Glance - Genova Part 9 - The Padova to Paris Journey
"After all it is the adventure that counts" - Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Welcome to Episode #29 Genova, Liguria
The family trip continues after a too short stop over in Genov…
La Superba, Genova .... Part 8 - The Padova to Paris Journey
“There is already a tantalising sense of escape - of slipping beneath the radar of modern life"
- Tom Chesshyre 'Slow Train to Venice'
Welcome to Episode #28 Genova, Liguria
On…
The Pisan Embrace.... Pisa, Tuscany Part 7 - The Padova to Paris Journey
"Enchantment - a useless thing, but as dispensable as bread" - Gio Ponti
Welcome to Episode #27 Pisa, Tuscany....
I have always been a little intrigued about Pisa. Wondering to myself what it was all …
Into the Light, Lucca, Tuscany - Part 6 The Padova to Paris Journey
“The rain was coming down in what seemed solid sheets. But it was Italy. Nothing it did could be bad”
- Elizabeth Von Armin ‘Enchanted April’
Welcome to Episode #26
Join me…
Betwixt and Between - The Writer’s Life, an ode to 'Eat, Pray, Love' and Truffle Magic
"Thy light alone - Gives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream' - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Welcome to Episode #25.......
Sometimes you just need to start in the middle, and somehow you find the begin…
A Conversation with Christine from Italian Dish Podcast; Life in Tuscany, Italian food and how she found herself living in Italia.......Buon Natale to you all
“To make time to eat as Italians still do is to share in their inexhaustible gift for making art out of life”
- Marcella Hazan
‘The Essent…
Padova to Paris - The Family Trip....Part 5 - Florence, Tuscany Continued and the Art of Tuscan Biscotti/Cantucci Making
“Italy, like the olive tree, is ever-green”
- Lina Waterfield, ‘Castle in Italy’
Welcome to Episode #23.......
I begin with a light serenade to December 2020 sitting…
The Florentine Affair....Tuscany, Part 4 - The Padova to Paris Journey
“These trains have eaten into my mind and my writing” - Tim Parks ‘Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo’
Welcome to Episode #22.......
This an excerpt from the journey, the li…
La Cucina Povera and the Beauty of Simple Ingredients...A three part episode that begins in the chicken pen
“I just think food is so important to us, it is the most important thing we do, so why not enjoy it”...Rick Stein
Welcome to Episode 21:
This is just me, the real me, the girl that decides to make it h…
The Heart of Verona…. The Family Trip - Part 3
"Travel is like any other addiction: the more of it you've had, the more of it you need" - Tony Wheeler
Welcome to Episode 20: Verona, Veneto
The day began with a large yellow Mimosa heart wreath in th…