It sure as hell wasn’t like anything out of Audrey Hepburn’s fabled movie Roman Holiday … me riding a Vespa that is.

As strange as it might sound, I get asked about gelato all the time.
For some reason my friends and family back home are fascinated by Italian ice cream and they assume I’m an expert on the subject…

My goodness! Sometimes I feel like all I ever write about is Florence!
But fear not avid reader, if you exist, I’m not always going to blog about Florence, it’s just that I had to tell you this story.

Back when I first arrived in Tuscany as a naive 18-year-old fresh out of a very conservative, all-girls’-school in Australia a couple of [...]