Category Archives: stuff

European Train Schedules

Finally found the schedule format I’ve been looking for!
Deutsche Bahn has it!

Milano

The first time I was in Milan, in 1989, I hated it. I was there because a friend I was traveling with had her passport stolen while sleeping on the train to Venice. So we had to get off in Verona and go back to Milan. We wandered around looking for a […]

Off to Italy for the summer

Bella and I will be in Europe from 29 July - 18 Aug, with most of the time spent in Pieve di Cerreto. I think this trip I’ll get Bella enrolled in the same language course David and I took in Lucca. They have a class starting 4 Aug. We could take it for one […]

wiener wheel

Vienna was fun! We got there, exhausted after 4 flights that started for me om Friday at 6 am from Vermot, to LGA, to ORD, to FRA, where we arrived an hour late at 6 am Saturday, then spent the morning wandering around, eating frankfurters and visiting the market, the cathedral and […]

What is it that i can expect from this place?

Well first I am going to florence and then to Cinqueterre.  So my impression of borgo a mozzano will have to await until I arrive.  But I can tell you what I think of italy!
Italy is so many things to me
It is fine and equally funky.
I used to work in Italian Suisse and right when […]

musica italiana

One good way to pick up a language when you’re in that country is to listen to the popular music. That method worked really well for me in Berlin and Moscow, and even in Wales, although there wasn’t quite enough environmental conversation around me to reinforce it there. In Italy we’ve been listening to Radio […]

attualità

Got Jenn to the airport on time, despite traffic
Got lost coming back from the airport… missed one of the on-ramps to Lucca and ended up on top of a mountain in Monte Serra and three dead-end roads. Bella is getting better at reading maps…
Finally got a photo of a sunflower […]

Un due tre Stella!

What do we call this game in the US?

Road Race tonight

Apparently, there will be lots of activity on the street tonight.
Signs along the road say that our street will be closed from 00:30 to 09:00 on Sunday, but since yesterday there have been check points set up and people practicing driving fast on this rather narrow winding road. Eeks. Staying home for dinner.
More info:
Scuderia […]

Balsamic Vinegar or Balsamic Condiment?

Modena was a lovely little town with gorgeous buildings that reminded me of Madrid, but placed much closer together, making their height seem all the more imposing.  The cathedral was incredible and we managed to get in our first visit to a museum (though I’m dying to visit the “Museo di Castagna” - “Chestnut Museum” […]

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