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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Lessons Learned
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Now that I’ve been back in the U.S. for awhile – in fact over a month. I’ve had a lot of time to try to adjust. From living in a lively beautiful medieval city to – Oakland. I certainly miss Bologna I’ve been thinking about the experience I had and what I would do differently [...]
Lessons Learned
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We’re not in Italy any more
Monday, November 28th, 2011
Faced with 3 days alone in Frankfurt I really wasn’t sure what to do. After I got over the immediate wrenching dislocation I decided to make it an adventure. It took a little while to figure out how to use the machines to buy the tickets for the tram but once that was accomplished I [...]
We’re not in Italy any more
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