Our plan: check out Verona and take a slow breath for two days before Florence. The Italian miracle was that it worked. The B&B was a tiny, perfectly adequate little studio where we were nearby to a sprawling street market that had a fun organic little store that combined a small bookstore (I approach those …
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Blog from Burano
We slept late, a joy. How was it already Wednesday — was it Wednesday?! Today was a casual day to go to the ghetto, Burano, and enjoy some vaporetto/water taxi time — poor woman’s cruise! It was a wonderful hour with sea breezes, sunshine, and the Venice Grand Canal to the lagoon. Burano was our …
Darn Waffles
I was in such a hurry. Eighteen listed “to-do” items, and leaving at a designated time should have been enough, but only if I hustled. I am not a hustler. Having forgotten breakfast, then the clock continued its cycle. I rushed to put two frozen waffles into the toaster. Didn’t set the timer correctly, so …
On the Road Again, Redux
Hello from your friend/annoyer, depending… A bit later today (6/24/24), if all goes well, we will be on our way to Italy. At this moment, I am remembering how to post a blog, and how to include folks I have sent this to in the past, or let those who do not wish to be …
Blog #9 – October 13, 2023
Elaine, John, and Chris flew home on the 11th. Our flight was cancelled so we were rescheduled for the 12th. One day in Milan, we said. One day of possibilities. We could go see The Last Supper by da Vinci, if tickets were available. We could go view the fantastic Milanese architecture (just driving perhaps, …
Blog #8 – Italy 2023
Camogli by the sea. Done. While we’re sad to leave that quintessentially Mediterranean gorgeousness, another landscape awaited us in Bettola. Some of our dearly departed lived, made families, and worked here many years ago, and some, generations later, still do. We’ve been here before in a series of mishaps and misadventures that I won’t bore …
Blog #7 – Italy 2023
There are days to sit bonelessly beneath an umbrella, days to bonefully work, days to anxiously worry, and days to greedily eat gelato. We managed to avoid the first three, all day. The restaurant at Montallegro is some distance from here and has three virtues that make it fabulous. The first merit is that is …
Blog #6 – Italy 2023
Siamo Qui. We are here. You know those postcards you see of the Mediterranean Sea by Portofino? The ones where the colorful houses line up in layers like so many Lego blocks climbing up the hill with the sea twinkling below — here — much like the movie ‘Luca’. It’s really our tourist stop, which …
Blog #5 – Italy 2023
We are Italian party animals of a different sort. We seem to go from one thing to another with sweet abandon. So — let me tell you our lunch today,, as ordered by the prete (priest) Don Salvator, in whose church we have been trying to record baptisms from 1626-1700 today. He recommended the place; …
Blog #4 – Italy 2023
Romaggi is in the backview mirror today as we move to our B&B in Soglio. We left behind some accidentally thrown-out trash which was our laundry, but enjoyed a full week of mainly boneless relaxing. We are now in our newly remodeled Locanda da Sale — next door to church #2, San Michaele di Soglio, …