In The Sticks

I’m on an extended vacation back home in Australia, and I’m feeling my age. Not my literal age but my [...]

A woman walks into a gelateria and asks to try a teaspoon of nocciola. She read somewhere while researching her [...]

I have lived in Italy for more than a decade, which seems like an incredibly long time to someone who [...]

The sliding doors open and I have to hold myself back from literally jumping up and down with joy. To [...]

I met an American couple in Florence last week. It did not go well. But let me backtrack. It is [...]

It’s extremely difficult for me to broach the topic of this month’s column. It has to do with the five-liter [...]

Never trust an expat. Expats are liars. We lie to ourselves. We lie to our families. We lie to our [...]

There’s a new traffic light on my drive home from work. New traffic lights are big news in the sticks. [...]

Giulio and I are in the midst of an epic battle. For those of you arriving late to this column, [...]

In small town Tuscany, puttering around is a vocation, gossip also, and columnist Elisa Scarton Detti listens, avidly even.

It’s 11 a.m. on a Thursday and I’m pushing the tiny purples sills on my bingo card back up for [...]

When your Tuscan "neighbor" has a window into your home, you have a problem, writes Elisa Scarton Detti