Frances Mayes's Journal Travel, Food, Books, People

We had a very nice mention by Charlotte Druckman in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704904604576335233225766412.html?KEYWORDS=charlotte+druckman

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Arriving at Bramasole, our house in Cortona, always brings a rush to the senses. In late May, the ginestra, wild yellow broom, sweeps across the hills like a brushfire.  The whole slope below our mountain house is aflame and we roll down the window as we drive  for the golden scent.  This is the time [...]

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We have migrated to Italy and a minor surgery on my finger–right hand!–kept me from the computer the last days before I left.  I spent a lot of time in the garden and had a little time just to soak  in the beauty of a southern spring.  Of course, spring is beautiful everywhere and now [...]

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Book tours involve long car and plane trips and waits in airports, sometimes on runways, and odd hours in hotel rooms before and after events. These times I savor because I get to read.  These are some of the books I’ve enjoyed recently:
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, a well-wrought novel from the point of [...]

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National Geographic has published parts of the on-stage interview of by Don George and Don has published a very nice piece on the travel website Gadling. Check the links
http://www.gadling.com/2011/04/29/why-i-love-italy-five-inspiring-insights-from-an-evening-with-f/
and
nglive.org/videos

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