This blog is rooted in my experience as a tour guide in Italy and the conversations I’ve had with travellers. It focuses on advice, tips, insights and the story of how I moved to Italy in 2010 and what it’s like to live here (category: Laurenissima). Enjoy!
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PLAY VIDEORome is the magnet of Italian travel which I think is why much of... -
PLAY VIDEOThe Val d'Orcia area south of Siena is one of the most beautiful places... -
PLAY VIDEOThe thing I've grown to love about Livorno since moving here is its laid... -
PLAY VIDEOWorking as a private tour guide in Rome and Florence, conversations range from your... -
PLAY VIDEOLeonardo da Vinci, rockstar of the Renaissance, was born in the middle of Tuscany's... -
PLAY VIDEOWhen you accept a ride home from a mad scientist with green hair and... -
PLAY VIDEOFor centuries Umbria has been known as a region with spiritual and mystical properties... -
PLAY VIDEOLeonardo painted only four portraits of woman but each offers a window into the... -
PLAY VIDEONothing this year went "according to plan." That means uncertainty and a fair bit... -
PLAY VIDEOAs tour guides, we are used to having a solid chunk of the year... -
PLAY VIDEOMarch 9th was my birthday and also when Italy announced that the following day,... -
PLAY VIDEOIn the beginning … everything was cash, tickets and texts. Larry was in with all... -
PLAY VIDEOIn year three, around the time I moved into apartment number two thousand, I... -
PLAY VIDEOI started hinting that it might happen soon but soon kind of meant “in... -
PLAY VIDEOIt felt like falling off a cliff, so abrupt, almost terrifying, was the change... -
PLAY VIDEO"Can I be honest with you?" Let's face it, you always want to answer “No”... -
PLAY VIDEOSometimes you meet people and have no idea that they will change your life.... -
PLAY VIDEOThe next “season” of Laurenissima (click here to catch up on the first three... -
PLAY VIDEOTraveling by train in Italy is an easy and fast way to get around... -
PLAY VIDEOWhen I gave my first tour seven years ago, it was of the Roman... -
PLAY VIDEOIn that first year living in Rome I wondered: when will I feel like... -
PLAY VIDEOGiving private English lessons was a revelation in how wealthy Roman families lived. Packed... -
PLAY VIDEOYou might consider yourself a spiritual or a religious person, someone who thinks the... -
PLAY VIDEOHow can I phrase this... I’m bad with languages. Even my own. Inept might... -
PLAY VIDEOI mentioned in my first "Laurenissima" post that my Roman boyfriend Dario had “tried”... -
PLAY VIDEOThe Vatican museums are the fifth most visited museum in the world with about... -
PLAY VIDEOMy second English teaching job was with a Dickensian-ly dismal school located near Termini... -
PLAY VIDEOA Step by Step Guide You've heard about the lines, you've heard about the crowds,... -
PLAY VIDEOMy first impressions in Rome seem to echo over and over in the stories... -
PLAY VIDEOMy first English teaching job in Rome (or first "mission, should I choose to... -
PLAY VIDEOLooking for work in Rome turned out to be like a lot of my... -
PLAY VIDEOThe gateway job to making it in Rome is teaching English. If you want... -
PLAY VIDEOI didn’t do it the easy way. Or the legal way. Or the right... -
PLAY VIDEOVenice has become part of the Italian vacation trifecta: more and more people are choosing... -
PLAY VIDEOI live and work in Rome and Florence so I admit, when it comes... -
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PLAY VIDEOWhat’s happening in Rome this April? After touring the Colosseum, Vatican and Rome's hidden... -
PLAY VIDEOCOVID-19 Update: As of summer 2020, the underground section of the Colosseum is closed... -
PLAY VIDEOIt's not all Renaissance frescoes and medieval church architecture in this city - Florence's...