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pranzo a lucca

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Very nice restaurant near Mercato.

Gelateria Santini — the very best chocolate gelato…

Across the piazza from the Lucca chapter of the Italian Communist Party.

airport to trainstation

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corte della campana

Tonight we had our wine tasting class at La Corte dei vini. three very different white wines, and two excellent “little brother” tuscans, and we learned what the marketing term “super tuscan” means. this was our final bottle.
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david cucinarà

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barga duomo

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trattoria melo a roma

Finally found a pretty good restaurant in Rome tonight! The hotel clerk said via Travestere was the place, but we didn’t make it that far. Instead we stopped at this place in Piazza Venezia. It probably helped that we were pretty hungry, having only had truffle finger sandwiches all day. The food wasn’t amazing, but […]

santo spirito

Bella and I gave patricia the 2-hour firenze tour: hertz office to train station, to duomo, to ponte vecchio, to santo spirito and the truffle sandwich shop.
I hadn’t been in Santo Spirito before, and we were particularly impressed by this painting:

il pescatore

Fish heads!

croatian blackberry wine

David & I picked up this wine at the market in Zagreb last month for a few kuna. Honestly, I was a little afraid to try it… the old guy selling it just had a few bottles and some random junk on an otherwise empty table. All the bottles were different. Not even […]

cena alla casa

After wandering around the Lucca market in the freezing cold sunshine today, we made dinner at home: tuscan sausage, zucchini, pasta, tomatoes, basil, mozzarella…

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