If you thought I couldn’t stretch out 28 hours of The Diz into two weeks worth of blogs… well you would be sadly mistaken. The International Food & Wine Festival in EPCOT came about when those of my generation grew up talking about how they could improve the great time they had drinking around the world… Is that true? Probably not. But it’s also not out of the realm of possibility. Here’s what we hit on our trip – turn right when facing The American Adventure and the World Sh

We go to EPCOT. We go to the World Showcase. We drink around the world. We love the Food & Wine. We love the environments. We love the BGM. We love the nostalgia. But, I think I speak to a lot of us when I say – ‘I think there could be more’. Ride space in Germany? Oh, it’s available. Ride space in Japan? Oh, it’s available. Ride space in Italy? Oh, it was scheduled – and later bumped – in Phase 2. Never mind when Venezuela, Spain, the State of Israel, Equatorial Africa were

“Behold, the majesty of the Sistine Ceiling…” The World Showcase’s Italian Pavilion shop Ii Bel Cristallo may pay homage to the Sistine Chapel, but Walter Cronkite’s delivery of the quote above resonates in my brain three decades later. It was always my favorite scene in Spaceship Earth, even more so than the turn into the planetarium cupola (now I’m using Italian architecture terms – so snobby!). This scene alone led me through a life in high school art classes where, throug

Previously, on Twitter, Sista Dillo requested a comparison of the Italian Pavilion in EPCOT’s World Showcase to the three ports in Italia I recently visited (Roma / Firenzia (Florence) / Salerno & the Amalfi Coast) – Qui andiamo! That means “Here we go’! We’ll reference the two pictures, above and below, first. Above is the Fountain of Neptune in Florence’s Piazza della Signoria and in front of Palazzo Vecchio. The fountain below is the famous Trevi Fountain in Rome. Some say

…shining…shimmering…splendid Right now Brother Dillo is on his way to a European cruise. He will be seeing parts of Italy, Greece, France. But so what? I’ve seen the world too. That world being World Showcase. Yes, that’s right. Anytime anyone has asked if I have been to any other countries I always say yes. I’ve been to France, Italy, Germany, Japan, China – I’ve seen it all. As I get towards the end I add in “, Epcot, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida.” But hey-it’s my li