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Day 2 trip 10 back in the old country
Day 2 Rested (fairly) and looking forward to our first experience with market day in Cortona we head downstairs to begin the day. Jeanette prepared a fantastic breakfast for us… eggs and bacon, grilled potatoes and tomatoes, prune crostata, fruit … Continue reading
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Back in the Old Country
Back in the old country again. It took us 13 years but we now celebrate our 10th anniversary of falling in love with Italy. After a remarkably quiet, on time (even early) nearly comfortable (but not quite of course because … Continue reading
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Sometimes something really good happens when you least expect it…
After an unusually chaotic and intense morning of unloading 60 some school buses of some 3000 elementary school children and then loading them again after a 1 hour version of the Nutcracker ballet, before going to the office to prepare … Continue reading
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Winter drags on…
Italy is calling, a lighthearted flirting melody with a musical accent. She waves olive wood smoke under my nose and wine. She calls with the sounds of leather soles on ancient stone streets and pigeons flushed to wing by children … Continue reading
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Annual Ski Weekend… the truth (shhh)
So maybe we need to look at the annual ski weekend a little more honestly. We are 11 people who have been renting a cottage in Northern Michigan for years measuring in decades. We bundle ourselves up and pack our … Continue reading
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are you kidding? it’s not even real food!
Does anyone else wonder why Pizza Hut is advertising that they have made their menu easier to understand? That they’ve eliminated the “confusing deals and math problems”. Who is this marketing targeting? I’m scared…
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Ruminations about vacations…
Between the jet lag (it definitely seems harder to recover going east to west) and the return to work and the routine of home life, for some of us, returning from a vacation can be an occasion for reflection. We … Continue reading
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Ciao Silvia… arrivaderci Persephone.
Day 7 We are gifted a bottle of wine from Silvio and warned that it is from a vineyard on Etna and it is very strong so we should be careful. Our plan is to see the town of Enna … Continue reading
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Ninja Tartaruga
Day 6 Stazzo is a tiny fishing town down a twisty narrow road between the sea and Mount Etna. This is where, after only about 4 wrong turns and a stand-off with a Hummer (more on this in a minute) … Continue reading
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