Inviato dal mio telefono Our first walk through town this year: We slept well through the morning and made it out around 4 pm, just as everyone else was waking up from their afternoon naps. Perfect cappuccino at il Gecko, and then a visit to the produce man for fresh oranges and over the bridge. […]
For sunday brunch, I decided it was finally time to make something interesting… I picked up chestnut flour at the coop last week 2801 and have been wanting to make this easy ricotta 2816 Turns out castagnaccio goes well with ricotta, and with all the rosemary just outside my door… Mix 1 c. chestnut flour […]
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Posted 02 August 2009
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I had planned to make this yesterday, and had started marinating the breast in the morning, but having ended up with the car for an extra day, i decided to make use of that and go to the gym last night instead. So today, after getting the car to the rental place in Lucca at […]
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Posted 30 July 2009
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Yesterday we arrived home in Pieve di Cerreto to find the phone and dsl shut off (now we know what happens when an old bill goes unpaid for a couple cycles). And we met two new friends from the University in Florence who are working on restoring the +1000 year old church in our courtyard. […]
Finally found the schedule format I’ve been looking for! Deutsche Bahn has it!
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Posted 18 August 2008
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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 […]
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 […]
Well first I am going to florence and then to Cinqueterre. So my impression of borgo a mozzano will have to await until I arrive. But I can tell you what I think of italy! Italy is so many things to me It is fine and equally funky. I used to work in Italian Suisse […]
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Posted 26 October 2007
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One good way to pick up a language when you’re in that country is to listen to the popular music. That method worked really well for me in Berlin and Moscow, and even in Wales, although there wasn’t quite enough environmental conversation around me to reinforce it there. In Italy we’ve been listening to Radio […]
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Posted 08 August 2007
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