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Can it be?? And soooo close too! The World’s Best Chocolate

a peak inside Rocca

After David took off on his run, I was walking down from the ruins on Saturday and saw the church door was open, so I stepped in… strangely though it didn’t look like a church inside. And when I saw the newly remodeled bathroom, I though someone might actually live there! I took a couple […]

a day at home in italy

After spending a beautiful Friday morning walking all over Venice fresh off the night train, we took the noon train to Florence and arrived home to Pieve di Cerreto Friday evening. All looked good… house still standing, electricity still on (though we discovered today that it must have been out for a while since everything […]

photos from Leslie

She took some really good ones!

a few hours in Bologna

I flew back to Bologna last night from Copenhagen and David met me there. Today I showed him the part of town I remembered best from our visit this summer. I think he liked it… We also stopped by MAMbo’s Vertigo exhibition.

castagne roasting in my new copper pan…

I tried to get an ethernet dsl modem, but mistakenly got the stupid usb one again (and again, no mac driver, wtf — it’s even a D-Link!?) Well, I was a bit distracted trying to plan my upcoming work trip to sweden and so forth while shopping in the superstore… so i didn’t read as […]

boboli garden

leslie and i had a lot of fun playing on this super smooth marble slab in florence…. I definitely want this in my garden…

cena con Leslie

Our first dinner at home this week: I made stuffed zucchini flowers with garfagnana goat cheese, garlic and fresh basil (from my plant this summer, which Giuliana had planted in the courtyard for me); Leslie made local pasta with artichokes and vegetables, with carrivali nero’davola from Sicilia (2005).

I GOT THE DSL WORKING!!!

2.4 Mbps baby! With a new digicom Michelangelo USB ADSL modem. Cute little portable thing and easy peasy to configure (just choose PPoE). But what a goose chase to find someone who would sell it to me. Finally found an intelligent WOMAN at Centro Computer in Castelnuovo Garfagnana. I saw they are a Cisco reseller, […]

passagio del terrore

We arrived at Pieve di Cerreto Saturday evening to find the dsl modem dead … so tomorrow I’ll work on getting that replaced. Today I showed Leslie the lovely Lucca where there were lots of Americans who all seemed to be from the Bay Area, but no antique market… instead they are preparing for the […]