Tonight we saw the first act of La Boheme. The cicadas and crying babies were a bit too much, and without supertitles, Isabella wasn’t too excited about it. The voices were a bit soft anyway, but it was a nice set!
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Posted 03 August 2008
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Or at least that’s what the dictionary says. Muffins are pretty American, about as unlikely a find in Europe as brownies. But fresh blueberries were on sale (99 euro cents for 125 grams!) and I even found Italian-made bran cereal. The recipe is based on one from epicurious: Mix together: 1 egg 1/4 c sunflower […]
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Posted 03 August 2008
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The people staying here last month left a bag of potatoes, so of course we must make gnocchi! My grandmother made this for us before I ever saw gnocchi on a menu. The first time I ordered it in a restaurant, I was surprised to see it and said, just like she did, “Gnawkey” — […]
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Posted 03 August 2008
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The town country club turned two of its tennis courts into 3 pools — a 30 meter lap pool and two small wading pools, one with a fountain. 6.50 euro each for the day until 7 pm. We were thinking we’d go to Bagni di Lucca today but when we saw the sign for this, […]
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Posted 03 August 2008
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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. […]
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. […]
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Posted 02 August 2008
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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 with Anrew, Andrea […]
This trip to italy starts on singapore air from jfk to fra, though bella had just arrived on aeroflot from her 10-day black sea trip with her dad. Two atlantic crossings in one day for her!
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Posted 28 July 2008
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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 […]
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Posted 20 July 2008
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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 the female impressionists […]