Being Italian

Everyone should try being Italian at least once a year.

Welcoming the end of 2023. It has been a strange year. Exhausting in many ways. Italy has been so swamped with tourism, the off season now is shorter and shorter.

Florentines exhault in the off season, when the city turns back to belonging to the residents.

We moved from downtown Florence to the countryside in 2002. We live an hour south in the countrysid…