Pranzo con mamma (lunch with mom)
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Well, not my mother. That would be impossible. Last weekend I went with my friend and teacher, Claudia, from the school to visit her mother in Mesola. I had exchanged emails with her mother when I was still in California and enjoyed our exchanges. One weekend, some weeks ago, her mother Cinzia came to Bologna […]
Pranzo con mamma (lunch with mom)
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Trip to Ravenna
Sunday, June 17th, 2012
I don’t write much about side trips, churches, monuments and such things but decided that the day trip merited a post. Ravenna is famous for byzantine mosaics and I saw a lot of them. Ravenna was the center of byzantine control in Italy starting in 540 and lasted for a couple of hundred years. During […]
Trip to Ravenna
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Aperitivo
Saturday, June 9th, 2012
What a wonderful invention! You go out in the evening to have a glass of wine or a beer at a bar and what do you find? They feed you. Well, sometimes you need to pay a couple of euros in addition to the cost of drinks for the food but it’s still a terrific […]
Aperitivo
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The Rasoio (the razor)
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
Razor! Doesn’t seem like an interesting subject but in this case there is a bit of learning of how things work in Italy in a totally different sense. The story begins with my electric razor. It’s one of those Norelco things with three rotating heads. I don’t shave very often either here or in California […]
The Rasoio (the razor)
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