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
Venice and the Art of Travel....The Padova to Paris Journey - Part 2
"Open my heart, and you will see / Graved inside of it, Italy" - Robert Browning
Welcome to Episode #19: Venezia, Venetia - Italy
Venice is the icing on the cake and should be sampled at least once in…
Padova, Italy to Paris, France - The Family Trip...... Part 1
"We are all pilgrims who seek Italy" - Goethe, Italian Journey
Welcome to Episode 18: Padova, Veneto
What a sweet thing to create this episode and share our family journey in Italy and France. So gra…
Bringing Italy Home - Part 2 - Accordions, Mothers, Second Chances, Culture, Tradition and there’s Always Italy......From the Armchair at Home
Welcome to Episode #17: Bringing Italy Home..
This is a second dose of possibilities of an Italian kind. Over the past few weeks I have been wandering into old books and new ones, and have felt del…
Bringing Italy Home - The Spirit of Place......Books and Movies to Enjoy
Welcome to Episode 16 Bringing Italy Home with favourite movies, cookbooks and travel narratives that have kept the spirit happy over the years....So you too can travel from your armchair at home at …
The Calabrian Homecoming - In Conversation with Josephine Gregoire
Welcome to Episode #15: The Calabrian Homecoming - In Conversation with Josephine Gregoire.....
I have sat on this conversation for a while now and let’s just say it has to be noted that we sat down o…
Food For Thought: Cooking with Massimo and Friends, and Living the Simple Life
Welcome to Episode #14: Food For Thought, Cooking from the Cookbook ‘Bread is Gold: Extraordinary Meals with Ordinary Ingredients’ as a project to see me though this year. I have no doubt it will t…
One Writer’s Journey - On Memoir, Writing, Belle Italia and Food for Soul.......
Welcome to Episode #13 and One Writer’s Journey - On the beauty of writing and reading Memoir, a homage to Belle Italia and Food For Soul.
This share is a montage of sorts and covers a few relevant ar…
The Good Life at La Tavola Marche - In Conversation with Ashley Bartner
Welcome to Episode #12:
We kick off Season 2 with a wonderful conversation with the delightful Ashley Bartner of
La Tavola Marche, a Cooking School, Farm and Agriturismo in Italy.
Ashley and her husb…
Rome, Italy “If you have no faith in me, have faith in what you see” (Cinema Paradiso)
- Welcome to Episode #11 and the Eternal City of Roma. This is the final chapter of the book share In the Shadow of a Cypress: An Italian Adventure and Season 1 on the podcast A Writer In Italy.
What…
Amalfi, Campania Continued.....Walking adventures in Positano, Minori and Real Life
Welcome to Episode #10 Amalfi, Campania and the joys and discoveries up in the terraced hillside of Pogerola, Italy.
Certainly this recent podcast had me juggling the creative life and the realities o…
Amalfi, Campania.... “There’s nothing like a fountain and a magnum of French champagne to put you right again” - Under the Tuscan sun (film)
Welcome to Episode #9 Amalfi, Campania......
Travel Writer and Author Freya Stark once said, “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surroun…
Siena, Tuscany and the Adventure Continues..... “The Bees, you don’t bother them, they won’t bother you” (Stealing Beauty)
Welcome to Episode #8 Siena, Tuscany
Book Share: In the Shadow of a Cypress: An Italian Adventure.
Chapter 6 and the Italian Adventure continues.....After wonderful days exploring Florence and Fies…
A Conversation with Food Writer, Cookbook Author and Photographer Emiko Davies about Italy, Books and Family.
Welcome to Episode #7: A Conversation with Cookbook Author, Food Writer and Photographer Emiko Davies about Italy, Books and Family.......
I had a lovely time over coffee at Tilley’s Lyneham on a ch…
Florence, Tuscany: "I have drunk deep the wine of Firenze: I've warmed both hands before the fires of Botticelli and Michelangelo", Tea With Mussolini......and the Italophile as a way of life.
Welcome to Episode 6: Florence and Fiesole......
Book Share: In the Shadow of a Cypress: An Italian Adventure.
Chapter 4 and the adventure of seeing Florence again after many years, staying in the hi…
Assisi: The Spiritual Heart of Italy
Welcome to Episode 5: Assisi, Umbria
Book Share: In the Shadow of a Cypress: An Italian Adventure
The adventure continues in Cortona and a visit to Assisi, the spiritual home of Italy's patron Saint, …
Episode 4: Cortona, Tuscany........."Terrible Ideas hmmm, don't you just love those?"....Under The Tuscan Sun (Film) and the Creative Life
Welcome to Episode 4: Cortona, Italy
Book Share: In the Shadow of a Cypress: An Italian Adventure
Chapter 3: "Terrible Ideas, hmmm don't you just love those?"..........Under The Tuscan Sun (film)
This …
Umbria, Orvieto "I have a great talent for perseverance" and Happy Messy Life.
Welcome to Episode 3: Orvieto, Umbria
Book Share: In the Shadow of a Cypress: An Italian Adventure
Chapter 2: "I have a great talent for perseverance" My House in Umbria (film)
This chapter is the be…
Chapter 2: Rome: Take the Gun, Leave the Cannoli or Buy a Ticket to Italy, Take a Risk
Book Share: In the Shadow of a Cypress: An Italian Adventure
Five years ago Michelle Johnston traveled to Italy to create space for herself and her writing. Michelle traveled solo giving herself ti…
Chapter 1: "Take the Gun, Leave the Cannoli or Buy a Ticket to Italy - Take a Risk"
Five years ago Michelle Johnston traveled to Italy to create space for herself and her writing. Michelle traveled solo giving herself time to recalibrate after many years of parenting and life in ge…