by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog
An engrossing book that delights and educates By JimfromVenice on August 6, 2014 Lions and Gondolas is enjoyable on many different levels. It serves as a coming of age novel, as a sympathetic treatment of the Romani people, as a thrilling story of a woman lion...
by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog
Well-to-do folk are spending tens of thousands of dollars on newly built gypsy caravans, and the Wall Street Journal is hot on the trail. The Journal, forever the go-to source for the latest in rich people trends (like water features,absurdly large...
by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog
The gorgeous setting of Amor de Mar And its expats from Germany, Connecticut, Canada, the Hamptons, Bulgaria Healers, Masseuses, Yoga teachers, a Masseuse, Chef and Music Makers. There is a wonderful and generous spirit in a small beach area close to...
by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog
Here is an incredible article on the Rom in the holocaust by writer Mike Doherty and images by Robert Dawson. http://www.anglunipe.si/
by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog
To those who are eagerly awaiting the next book — I have begun writing my third book, Angel’s Flight. This is chapter 1 in its entirety. Chapter I I live in Venice, a world by the sea, visited by wild parrots, where an unknown oracle answers to those...
by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog
(As published in The Beachhead, December 2013 issue) If you can spare a moment to contemplate Abbot Kinney’s Venice when he hosted the annual and most splendid Christmas Parties at the Venice Dance Pavilion. The local papers described it this way: “nowhere else...
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