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You’re not always born at home…

What an honour - included not once, but twice (at the 12th and 47th minutes)!!

Monday Night Travel with Rick Steves: I was the “delightful” (Rick’s words!) guest host!

Join us as we talk about Venice, Florence, and Rome!

And the accompanying article is here!

Interviewing Andrea Moneti about his years documenting the Contrada del Leocorno!

August 2023: Interviewed on Canale 3 Toscana and Radio Siena TV to talk about being the English voice of the Palio (plus some articles here and here).

April 2022: Grazie a Viviana and Stefano from The Italian Radio Hour; listen here!

July 2020: What a wonderful surprise! Jim Braude and Margery Eagan (WGBH Boston Public Radio) know who I am! Listen to their interview with Rick Steves here, and keep an ear out for an unexpected compliment at the 5’45” mark!

On Antenna Radio Esse in Siena, I was the featured interview of the week with Sara Corti.

Keep scrolling to listen to more radio interviews, plus see what Rick and I got up to when he came to Siena!

Travel with Rick Steves

And there we all are, recording in the Edmonds studio! Click on the ‘Tuscany’ show to hear me, karin kibby, and rick talk about italy’s most beautiful region (warning: Karin and I are totally biased).

And there we all are, recording in the Edmonds studio! Click on the ‘Tuscany’ show to hear me, karin kibby, and rick talk about italy’s most beautiful region (warning: Karin and I are totally biased).

 
 

I’ve been working with Rick Steves since 2015, and yes, he’s just as amazing in person as he is on his TV shows! Each year I head to RSE HQ in Edmonds, WA, to talk about all things tour-related and occasionally to have a chat on the radio about our favourite Italian customs and places. Below are links to the radio programs we’ve done together on “Travel with Rick Steves” (I come in at the top of the hour or at the minute mark listed): 

with rick steves

“Love justice, you who rule the earth”. With Rick Steves in Siena’s Town Hall.

Campanilismo with Rick Steves in the Piazza del Campo, Siena!

Palio Commentary in English

Images of the Palio 16 Agosto 2018 provided by the Consortium for the Protection of the Palio commented by Anna Piperato #paliolive

Palio of 16 August 2019 #PalioLive

Click on the buttons below to see more on facebook and YouTube!

YouTube

Some good has come out of this Covid-19 lockdown, in that I finally figured out how to use iMovie! Please have a look at the new SienaItalyTours channel, plus the Essential Italiano channel I started with my colleague, Ambra!

Easter and the Passion Cycle in (mostly) Sienese Art (plus numerology and relics!) #sienaitalytours #easter #passioncycle #christiannumerology #passionrelics...

Italy is known for its delicious food, so when you visit, you must be able to ask for a table at a restaurant in italiano! Join Ambra and Anna to learn how t...

Publications

OK, so I don’t have many (in a former life I gave more conference presentations), but perhaps the one I am most proud of is an article I wrote (in italiano!) for the June 2011 Romolo & Remo, the Contrada della Lupa’s magazine (download PDF here: “Diario di un’americana”).
My picture is also in Mauro Civai and Enrico Toti’s Palio: la corsa dell’anima (Colle di Val d’Elsa: Salvietti & Barabuffi, 2013) on page 102 (surely that must count for something!).

"The Palio of Siena: A Journey through Time", in Artistic Responses to Travel in the Western Tradition, pp. 86-107, ed. by Sarah J. Lippert (London: Routledge, 2018)

Sometimes people write about me, oddly enough…grazie, Andrea!
And grazie for the interview, Rick Steves!