Myra Robinson

Letters from Veneto: June

July 2023
Suddenly everything is gathering pace for the summer season. Posters are appearing on trees telling us about the latest festivals and outdoor events, and it is often hard to choose what to do on weekends. I love the Pea Festival in the village of...


Letters from Veneto: May Celebrations

June 2023
May has already been a very busy month here in Italy.  We got off to a lucky start when the forecasted rain for the Canale Fiorito Festival on May 1 didn’t materialize, and the whole thing went wonderfully until the rain finally arrived at 6...


Cheese Making

May 2023
Quite often when I am living in my little apartment, I’ll hear a voice from the street, calling me. As I am on the second floor, I open the shutters and windows and step out onto the balcony, but I can usually guess who it is, my friend...


Letters from Veneto: Life in Italy

May 2023
Living in Italy isn’t all sunshine, wine, great food, art and architecture (although, really, it mostly is!). Sometimes the bureaucracy just gets you down. This letter from the Veneto describes some of the challenges of living in Italy. We have...


Letters from the Veneto

April 2023
If you think that the Veneto extends for miles along a featureless plain, think again. The town of Asolo is perfectly situated among the cypresses in the foothills of the Dolomites just 47 miles from Venice. It is a tiny walled town once ruled by...


Letters from the Veneto

March 2023
In winter in the Veneto, the skies are often blue even though the air, coming down from the Dolomites, is glacial. We typically find indoor places to visit, preferably with log fires and a bit of wine tasting thrown in for good measure, and that’s...


Letters from the Veneto

February 2023
It has been 15 years since I bought my small apartment in the Veneto, and even longer since my love affair with Italy began. As a typical English family, we had always taken our summer holidays in France. We enjoyed speaking the language after...


What do Penelope Cruz, Ferrari and the Oldest Hotel in Italy Have in Common?

December 2022
It often happens in Italy. You stop in a little, seemingly unremarkable town, and you discover somewhere charming and fascinating. So it was with my recent stay in Reggio Emilia. For a start, you wouldn’t ever think that the oldest hotel in Italy...


The Spas of the Euganean Hills: The Best Mud in Italy

November 2022
Activity holidays are very much in vogue these days, but what if it is the landscape that is full of activity rather than the people on holiday? I am talking about amazing regions of geothermal phenomena where the unexpected happens; from...


The Spas of the Euganean Hills: The Best Mud in Italy

October 2022
Activity holidays are very much in vogue these days, but what if it is the landscape that is full of activity rather than the people on holiday? I am talking about amazing regions of geothermal phenomena where the unexpected happens; from...


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