MEL GEE HENDERSON, ESCAPESEEKER: MY PERSONAL REFLECTIONS...PAST ...

Now decades later, Mel has morphed her talent for storytelling from print journalism to broadcast news--including serving as a special correspondent to the International Cannes Film Festival for nearly a decade. .... The elegant and historic Sala Parlamento treats Hotel's guests to a delicious full breakfast each morning. It was the former meeting room of the members of Parliament and Senators of the Kingdom of Italy, when Florence was its capital, from 1865 to 1870. ...