Monthly Archives: June 2014

Arrivaderci Cortona 😢

Posted on June 14, 2014 by distracted1

Friday 13th, Italia 2014 last act. Feeling pretty good this morning we take a fairly leisurely breakfast and say our farewells to Jeanette. One last longing look up the street and we descend to the dusty parking lot and load … Continue reading →

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Wednesday… not as planned

Posted on June 13, 2014 by distracted1

  Wednesday… not as planned. So the day starts relatively normally. D. is up first, I have a double espresso, she has real food. Only difference is D seems to be coming down with a cold and I woke with … Continue reading →

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San Galgano

Posted on June 11, 2014 by distracted1

Tuesday in Corona, and there about. A typical morning at Jeanette’s starts with street noise starting around 7:30. Nothing obnoxious, just shutters opening and store deliveries.  D gets up around 8, gets ready and heads down to the breakfast room. I … Continue reading →

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Feels like home

Posted on June 10, 2014 by distracted1

Day 5, first full day in Cortona, Cortona is our adopted Italian home town. It is the town that called us to Italy in 1999 and to which we have returned 10 times in 11 trips. We know people here … Continue reading →

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Travel Day

Posted on June 9, 2014 by distracted1

  Travel day today. Showers, packing, and breakfast before the car arrived to take us to the airport to pick up the rental car. Yes the airport. As backwards as it seems, picking up a rental at the airport is … Continue reading →

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Day 3, Like we live here.

Posted on June 7, 2014 by distracted1

Day 3, warm enough for you? Those of you who know me at all probably know that I’m not a big fan of the heat. Anything above say 65 I generally consider questionable and above 75 I head for an … Continue reading →

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Day 2, Amazing how much of a 21st century city is cobblestone…oy

Posted on June 6, 2014 by distracted1

Full day 2 A little stiff this morning, the stiff mattress was a little stiffer perhaps without the benefit of a transatlantic voyage to redefine “stiff” and to knock us out. But we woke up in Rome and that can … Continue reading →

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Wrapping up day 1

Posted on June 6, 2014 by distracted1

The end of day 1 So after the Irish Pub burger food coma we enjoyed after lunch on day 1 we decided to go for what looked like a little walk to the Giardini del Quirinale. We walked and we … Continue reading →

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Full day 1, Hello Rome!

Posted on June 5, 2014 by distracted1

Full day #1 Good morning Rome! Our first night in the apartment we slept the sleep of the dead, despite the remarkably firm mattress. The apartment is small and by small I mean I’ve seen more square footage of living … Continue reading →

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Call me Squishmael…

Posted on June 4, 2014 by distracted1

The indignity of travel by air, or, portrait of the artist as a young sardine. It really is a miracle. To leave one’s home in West Michigan at 2 pm and 15 hours later be sitting in a piazza in … Continue reading →

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