In (not so) Fair Verona

Valentines day is coming up and this small sweet Italian town is a perfect winter charmer.  you might even get lucky and see it through snowflakes

I was not quite so lucky when I went north with recently with a friend.  It was rain, rain and more rain...it literally did. not. stop.

Cocktail Hour

It has been a long wait for the return of Mad Men.  All those glamourous clothes and all that smoking.


and Cocktails.


There are plenty of places to have a drink in a pretty place in Rome.  But a real cocktail?  with a bartender (do i dare say mixologist?) not so much.