Stockholm, Sweden September 22 This morning we awoke to somewhat choppy seas, which made it all the better, during a morning lecture, to imagine ...

Tallinn, Estonia September 19, 2009 On the way to Estonia, aboard the Explorer, we watched a remarkable documentary called “The Singing Revolution,” about the ...

St. Petersburg, Russia Helsinki, Finland Sept. 14-18 2009 Landing in St. Petersburg after southern Italy was a shock—a huge difference in culture, weather, fashion, faces. ...

Ciao, Italia! I left Italy this morning and heard my last “arrivaderci.” I was sad to go, not only because I had a ...

Sicily: Tonnara di Scopello Sicily and Sardegna have a long tradition of mattanza, a ritual that takes place every May and June, where ...

I am in Palermo, and had a quintessentially Palermo experience today: I went to visit Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi di Lampedusa, who is ...