Category: Italy
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Stories from Rome
By Frederick Wolstenholme Travel is Storytelling Travel is, if anything, about stories. Mostly. It’s about the stories we tell ourselves before and after our adventure. The stories we long to discover, and the ones we try to hide. It is the story of history and of the future. Of ingenious design and fatal error. Of…
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Art is Everywhere: A Newfound Appreciation for Florence
By Frederick Wolstenholme We arrived in Florence and slowly stepped outside into a plaza of construction and a light drizzle. We made our way, in a zigzag fashion to our place on Via degli Alfani. The sidewalks were large, rectangular and deep enough to host little pools of water from the evening rain. The asphalt-covered…
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Calatrava, Venice, and the Art of Learning the Hard Way
By Frederick Wolstenholme A Calatrava in Calgary As soon as I learned about Calgary’s new bridge, I liked it. It was new and fresh and had fancy glass. It looked like a Chinese finger trap and that, in my opinion, beat anything that existed elsewhere in the city. Calgary needed a new bridge, if not…
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Crash Landings, the Duc de Esseintes, and Bucket Lists
By Frederick Wolstenholme My Dad, the Almost Pilot My parents don’t vacation often. And when they do, they drive. The last time my father went to Europe was 10 years ago. The time before that was on his honeymoon in the early 70s. We could never figure out why he preferred driving to flying. Then…