I know. Totally, I am. Not Cool. But, we finally took the time to go to the Archeology Museum, and it was quite amazing, especially if you like skull measurements, and comparisons, along with 5000-year-old bodies/skeletons and big slabs of rock. That is essentially what the stone era had to deal with, and you go …
Category Archives: Italy-2021
Dense
I am just getting what it looks like to have 500,000 people in a country 3% the size of the Big Island of Hawaii (which only has about 187,000 people)? In their efforts to vitalize and stay afloat during covid, they’ve been building like crazy, and old/new buildings tend to be 7-10 stories tall, ( …
26 Hours in Malta
Someplace in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea there sits a small island, actually an archipelago of islands that qualify as one of the smallest countries in the world. (10th) Historically it has played an outsized role in history. This means that everybody and his brother has fought here for either control or ownership of …
Last Tango in Chiavari
The process of moving after a five-week stay is more than my usual slapdash ‘get it in the bag, and sort it out when we get home’ strategy. We are repacking for a different airline-the budget one with limited baggage—and a different locational climate— between the coasts of Africa and Sicily. Warmer, right? I didn’t …
Restless Winding Roads
Sleeping till 9:30 has a lot to recommend it, but by the time all our teeth are brushed and breakfast eaten and cleaned up, it is almost time for the mid-day jaunt into town. Sleeping late interferes with enjoying a long day- there just isn’t enough left of it to make anything happen! But we …
Are we Lazy, or Doing our work
Your choice-we call it work Some random thoughts on Italy. Everyone has these very deliberate haircuts. Whether they are short only on the sides, or crisply trim, or top long, whatever, the effect is that there are a lot of barbershops cutting hair, and it is my impression that people are aware of each other …
Sunday in the hood
Our weekend workshop was Friday through Sunday, daytime, USA. Here it looked like afternoon through the next morning. Lew in one room participating on his zoom, and me in another, we managed to attend most.I gave up at 4:51 AM, and left Lew, who has amazing stamina. to stumble in a couple of hours later. …
benissimo!
It happened. Against all of my own prognostications and denouncements, it was. And now I am one whole decade further along the route to the sun. Lew brought me three cards- three! cards in lieu of the fact that he couldn’t find one that said Happy Birthday. We had plans, yes we did. We were …
One long day in Genova
Going by train and bus is easy, we said. Urban creatures that we are- urbane and sophisticated with world travel, we read that the UNESCO site called the ROLLI, would be open in Genova for a few days- those days while we are here nearby. We planned a lovely long day, and we got it …
Quiet times
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, …