Month: December 2024

  • Whispering Roots

    Thank you Puglia for being so kind to me… and for making this solitary Christmas far less lonely than I thought it might end up being 🎄. The whole region of Apulia (or in proper Italian, Puglia) felt desolate over Christmas. Everything was closed. Making me acutely aware of the fact that everyone else was…

  • Roots – My probably strangest and most fulfilling Christmas to date

    The 25th is definitely an extremely important family day in Italy. Absolutely everything was closed. And pretty much all day – after I left Taranto – I was the only person on the road. Coasting along through olive tree orchards and deserted villages as if in a dream. Sometimes, when I stopped in a village…