Author: mikyriccia

I'm a certified professional tour guide & personal shopper for private tours , in Tuscany , wedding planner in Italy : I can create and plan a special itinerary for you following your requests and passions. My passions are soooo many 😋😉 food ,thick foam cappuccino ( if possibile sipped in an historical cafè ) English tea , Italian gelato , books, arts and art exhibitions ,old bookshops, visiting museums, ,old libraries, dessert wine : vin Santo!, writing about all this & sharing it with you! When I am not traveling you can find me by Restaurant Pizzeria" Il Pollo d'Oro " run by my husband family since 1962 in Pistoia , Toscana, Italia. Feel free to contact me : Drop me a line . mikyriccia@gmail.com Follow me on Twitter @passion4food4fashion Find me on Facebook Michela Ricciarelli and Passion4Tuscany See my photos on Instagram michela ricciarelli passion4food4fashion

Adopt a Tuscan olive tree and enjoy your own organic extra virgin olive oil!

29 April 2021

Are you passionate about nature, environment, agriculture, history, traditions, organic food, Italian goodies , Tuscany and all about Italy ? Yes? So, this is your call! Now with https://www.ageroliva.it/ you can have the chance to adopt a Tuscan olive tree on Pistoia’s hills and so in this way you could : 1. save a tree … More Adopt a Tuscan olive tree and enjoy your own organic extra virgin olive oil!

American and fully vaccinated? Nonessential travels allowed to European Union over the summer 2021!

28 April 2021

Fully vaccinated people, tourists from America, United States, could visit and travel Italy, Europe, Tuscany in summer time ! Freedom in an healthy way, let’s toast to this good news … More American and fully vaccinated? Nonessential travels allowed to European Union over the summer 2021!

Italy is safe : curfew doesn’t mean we have terrorism

23 April 2021

Italy is not a dangerous place where you can’t travel or visit or stay : having curfew it’s just a precaution to avoid normal people stay outside at night chatting as we were used to do in Italy , for social distance , not because we have terrorism , at least not more than in other part of the world! … More Italy is safe : curfew doesn’t mean we have terrorism

Let’s re start from the hairdresser & feeling beautiful again!

14 June 2020

During the quarantine I have read somewhere that one person can get depressed by not putting on makeup and in my opinion I would like to add that it starts even when you are not having your hair done! Since before the lockdown I couldn’t have time to go to the hairdresser: here in Italy … More Let’s re start from the hairdresser & feeling beautiful again!

9 June 2020

A message of hope after lockdown from Pistoia Tuscany Italy … More

Here Florence, Tuscany, Italy : May 21st 2020 Boboli Gardens re- open to public

21 May 2020

Goodmorning everybody, I am so happy that I am crying of joy writing this post : such a great good news I am going to tell you: after 10 weeks of closure due to the Covid19 finally a museum re-open and this is a very good sign! No matter if we will not have any … More Here Florence, Tuscany, Italy : May 21st 2020 Boboli Gardens re- open to public

Even Churches re-open after lockdown in Pistoia, Tuscany,Italy

20 May 2020

What a great emotion seeing the Church door open after so many days of lockdown! Finally we can go back to a Church and pray and most of all being able to take part to the celebrations. Of course even here there are the same restrictions we have in restaurants,cafes and open spaces : one … More Even Churches re-open after lockdown in Pistoia, Tuscany,Italy

A generous gesture from New York to Pistoia

13 May 2020

My good friend Sylvia Zarr from New York decided to donate pizzas and a typical American dessert homemade “brownies” to the nurses of the new Covid19 department located in the city center of Pistoia in Via della Crocetta. Sylvia ordered them through my husband restaurant pizzeria in Pistoia, Il Pollo d’oro. I went personally to … More A generous gesture from New York to Pistoia