Food, friendship and family are on the menu in ‘The Trip to Italy’ (B+)
One good trip deserves another, especially when gourmet food is prepared and devoured around every scenic corner. But the real secret to The Trip to Italy, and its predecessor, The Trip, isn’t the meals, or the travel, or the barbs and impressions shared ...
‘The Trip to Italy’ movie review: A mobile feast of food, wine and improv
I’ll never forget seeing “The Trip” for the first time, at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010. The larky little movie, starring British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, sent their characters on a modest adventure through the ...
Monaco: A Small Pleasure
Quick! What’s the smallest independent country in the world? Come-on, you Roman Catholics, speak up! The Vatican, of course, at .17 Square Miles (.44 Square Kilometers) Ok, let’s keep it going. Second biggest? Monaco at .75 Square Miles (1.95 Square Kilometers). This summer I spend a wonderful after ...
