Genealogy was the work of the day, with the four of us each on our various devices, trying to sort out how to properly enter records we aren’t really supposed to have so that we can do the work we are trying to do. The records from one of the towns are sparse, and probably, …
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Big City Grays
Hello to you on what will probably be a Saturday morning. I can’t keep trackToday I am writing in a little 2-star family lodging place we’ve stayed in for years. The Ascot Lodging Malpensa. The prices never go up because they never reinvest in the place, but they are lovely to us and have a …
Sundays random thoughts under a massive rainstorm
We attended a meeting at home scheduled for 7:30 MT (3:30 AM here), and since sound travels quite a bit, we padded to the car to Zoom onto the meeting in the dark, setting the phone on the dashboard. Daughter Kelley didn’t need to be awakened with our chatter. Afterward, now wide awake, we read …
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Cimitero
It is Saturday here, and we are all done in from lunch and a beautiful drive, and in the quiet space, I’ll begin a little writing. So far on this trip, I’ve found that one little story I’ve been writing and sweating over this past year, is so short that it doesn’t qualify as a …
Tourists!
Saturday, having snagged Kelley on a corner in Milan, we determined to go, once again, to Cinque Terre after a fine night’s sleep. The site of several previous visits, by now, we’d know better, one would think. CT is beautiful — As no doubt you all have seen in photos, or have walked, five ancient …
Italy – We’re Back!
Happy Fall/Autumn/Second Summer to you wherever you are. We were, at this moment 48 hours previous, frantically trying to complete a year’s worth of procrastination into about four hours of actual work to complete our preparations for 2021 — Italy, the long-awaited trip. You can only imagine! Now here we are, in Chiavari, Italy, between …
Halloweens Past
Is it Halloween, or is it just us? Halloween seldom occurs on Saturday night, an evening when it seems so natural to let off some steam, to let our often-reserved working selves fly into the night. One year, the weather, the mood, the occasion all conspired toward party time. Our town loves Halloween, and parties …
Done and done … for now …
Our plane to Munich is filling up with sleepy travelers; the attendant is making announcements, sounding a bit like a parody of every German spy movie ever made. “Mr. Sanchez. You vill come to zee front, pleez!” It is a German crew, following our Spanish crew from yesterdays layover in Barcelona. Despite strike warnings of …
American or Italian
We met with our hosts for a walk to our favored Gelati shop in the piazza across from the city palace this afternoon. Yes, palace. The piazza, San Giovanni Square forms the center of a town of a hundred bells. I can hear most of them too. On one side of the piazza is the …
A home for $1.00 ?
I am referring to the scheme on offer here for you who want to have your own home away from the politics of America, or perhaps just want to dig into a home-renovation project. There is an article in Insider, by Tom Murray that speaks of the places here in Sicily, and the terms of …