I’ve read some stuff in the New York Times, my most regular source of news, about the appallingly bad weather in eastern Europe along with associated deaths. However there has been virtually no mention of the fact that the weather in Italy almost everywhere is very bad. There has even been snow in Naples which is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ah, the time finally came when I needed to begin the trek home. It has been 10 weeks since I arrived in Italy and I must say I’m sad to leave. After leaving Sicily on a Thursday I spent two nights at a very nice hotel on Strada Maggiore not far from the school that [...]
