“Impossibile!”
Dottore Pascuale Grello was incredulous when I showed up at his office unannounced one morning and told him what I wanted to do.
“Impossibile!” he insisted, pronouncing the word with long vowels: eem-poh-SEEEEEE-bee-lay!
Nobody knows how many millions of nobles, senators, philosophers, soldiers, merchants, prisoners, slaves, poets and bandits have followed the route of the Appian Way […]
“In Appia is my salvation”
“In Appia is my salvation,” I wrote in a journal entry shortly before I rode diagonally across the southern half of Italy, from Rome to Brindisi, following the historic route of the via Appia as accurately as possible.
Why do we make these trips, anyway? You’ve got your own personal reasons when you travel by […]
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