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skiing megeve

Posted 16 February 2009 † Carolyn § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

hello world

I just dropped my phone so testing the camera. Time for Jon!

Posted 31 October 2008 † Carolyn § ‡ Comments (0) °

halloween for sale

Our town’s favorite holiday is Halloween. Here the local hardware store, Diavolerie, advertises in its window: Change the color of your house! – Blood Red – Liver Red – Bile Green ORGANIC PRODUCTS

Posted 29 October 2008 † Carolyn § ‡ Comments (0) °

david makes rope

In hessenpark Inviato dal mio telefono

Posted 26 October 2008 † Il mio Telefono § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Bingen!

We trekked off to Bingen, home of Hildegard, the 12th century saint and composer of the first opera, to see what was there. We found interesting graffiti everywhere. Lots of Mother & Child paths. A beautiful garden of pear, apple and plum trees, as well as grapes and blackberries. The convent of Hildegard makes Sekt, […]

Posted 19 August 2008 † Carolyn § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Milano

The first time I was in Milan, in 1989, I hated it. I was there because a friend I was traveling with had her passport stolen while sleeping on the train to Venice. So we had to get off in Verona and go back to Milan. We wandered around looking for a hotel (nothing had […]

Posted 15 August 2008 † Carolyn § stuff ‡ Comments (0) °

Buon Ferragosto!

I had planned to drive to Bassignana today, hometown of my great grandparents. However, the combination of the late night before, the rain, and the holiday, convinced me to put that off until another visit. The rain was off and on, mostly while we were driving. Nothing torrential really, rain here kind of comes and […]

Posted 15 August 2008 † Carolyn § ‡ Comments (0) °

Pane di mais

Isabella made this delicious corn bread for our driving and train trips this weekend before we left. We adapted a recipe from epicurious: 1 c white flour 1 c polenta 1 T baking powder (we used baking ammonia because that’s all we had… but I think it might have been too much) 4 T butter […]

Posted 15 August 2008 † Carolyn § cibo ‡ Comments (0) °

Vigna Ilaria

Our last day in Tuscany, we picked up Annie at the Lucca train station. She was supposed to arrive on Wednesday at 1, but somehow she couldn’t get on a train from Florence to Lucca. We waited until 1:30, watching a train from Florence arrive, but not seeing her, getting hungry and worried that we’d […]

Posted 14 August 2008 † Carolyn § cibo ‡ Comments (0) °

Bruno

Bellissimo!

Posted 14 August 2008 † Carolyn § ‡ Comments (0) °