Daily Archives Saturday, August 2008

pompelmo

I love grapefruit, but even this seemed a bit odd. Bella insisted I should try it. So today for lunch (last night’s left-overs), I did. Not horrible… sort of like beer mixed with fresca, without the icky saccharine aftertaste. Not something I could drink everyday, it’s a bit too sweet and soda poppy for beer. [...]

Dinner in Italy

We arrived in Pieve di Cerreto Thursday evening — too late to go grocery shopping, so we had our usual first dinner at I Macelli. Excellent as always, we sat near a German couple from Erfurt who were camping all over Italy. They came to see the famous bridge and read about the excellent restaurant. [...]

first stop basel

We took the train to italy from frankfurt, but had to change in Basel, so figured I’d drop in on my friend Andrew. We hadn’t seen each other in 15 years, since the last time I was in Berlin, 1993. We didn’t end up seeing much of Basel, but we had fun [...]

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