Festa preparations on the main route into Montelparo, Le Marche
A carpet of hilltop towns, patterned with crops and fields of faded sunflowers unrolled around every corner. Up and up the old car climbed, the oil hot and the passengers restless – we were nearly there.
This was Le Marche, all of it a discovery for us as we searched for the village of Montelparo and its new Hotel Leone.
How do you persuade anyone to use the underground metro in Naples?
A year ago I arrived in Naples – one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world. Over the months since I’ve explored miles and miles of its old centre, of its sfogliatelle layers, but I’ve never been tempted to use its metro. Why would I? Why miss any of the city’s light and life for a second?
Well … turns out I was tempted recently, and there were two reasons.
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Impressions of Naples (2015) by Eliza Fraser-Mackenzie
This blog post is based around an image of Naples captured by a young artist, Eliza Fraser-Mackenzie, born and raised in Zimbabwe.
The Phraser 