June 2nd in Italy is the "Festa della Repubblica" (Italy's National Day) and today in Stresa it was impossible to find parking because...

We spent an afternoon in Höri a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland. This small town of about...

We spent a weekend visiting Gianni's sister Nadja and family in Bülach a small town in the municipality of Zürich, Switzerland. Well six...

Having been in Stresa, Italy the past four weeks we have been literally forced to slow down because life is so much different than Canada....

Per L'Italiano scorri verso il basso fino vedi l'italiano My parents and family are from small town Castelsilano in Calabria and when I...

Serves: 12 I used to make this simple cheat cake (I use a box cake mix) when Steven was young as he loved the chocolate and whip cream. ...

Pretty much every town has a market that rolls into town the same day in the week. This means shutting down roads to cars and you are...

Living in Italy has made us slow down in every way as life here is about enjoying every moment. Workers actually walk away from work and...

Friday the 13th is considered lucky in Italy but I think we brought some of our Canadian juju because yesterday a drive that should have...

Feeding our brains is just as important as feeding our bodies. Of course the food we eat has a lot to do with the way our brain...

This is the first year I don't get to hug and kiss my mother for Mother's day and it brings sadness to my heart. Thankfully I have many...

I’m definitely one that thought the 5th of May was Mexico’s independence day, but with a little research I found out it commemorates the...

Today starts the 71st annual Mental Health week in Canada which launched across our nation in 1951. In 1918 the Canadian Mental Health...

Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years just fly by and therefore it is time to reminisce about 13,879 days ago. That is the day...

Tomorrow Gianni and I get to spend a couple of months in a small lakeside town we fell in love with when we scoped the region for the...

Today I reflect on the words of a song that was first recorded in 1977 but re-recorded by Whitney Houston in February of 1985. It truly...

However you drink your water, guidelines state we should be drinking six to eight 250 ml (8oz) glasses of water per day. There is...

Did you know there are over 2,000 types of fruit around the world? I'm pretty sure I've not tried more than 50 types! I love vegetables...

April has so many wonderful religious holidays that I thought I’d research and honour the ones I was able to find. Please note this is...

Based on the World Health Organization there are more than 55 million people living with a form of dementia on planet earth, with nearly...