Italy
November 2, 2009
- The varnished, wooden boat with curtained windows pulls up to the dock, and the handsome driver offers me his hand as I step into the boat. “Buon giorno, Signora,” he says, “Please...” and he gestures toward the boat’s empty seats. Sitting in the back with the wind blowing through my hair, I feel like a starlet being whisked away to my secluded Venetian hideaway as the sun sets behind ...
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November 1, 2009
- It all started in a Czech snowstorm. An October snowstorm, that is...As US expats living in Prague, we had the incredible privilege of driving to Italy for a vacation. The trip as a whole took our breath away-- Italy, and the the entire trip there and back, had a beauty beyond what we could have dreamed. And truly, the vacation was a dream come true.Through the Prague snowstorm, into Germany ...
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October 31, 2009
- Happy Halloween! It's a day of ghosts and goblins... and Michelangelo? Yep. Michelangelo! Read on... and maybe get some costuming inspiration? The Opening of The Sistine Chapel "Finally, on October 31, 1512, the chapel’s doors were opened and Romans flocked to see the wonders therein. Michelangelo’s work created an immediate sensation in the city and beyond. In covering the ...
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October 31, 2009
- High Tuscia, a rugged terrain of woods and canyons nestled between Rome and Tuscany is well known as homeland to the mysterious Etruscans as well as the headquarters of a revolutionary secret society of the 16th century which practiced occultism and masked its anti-clerical and reformist agenda behind pagan symbols. The great villas and sculpture gardens of the area, with their symbolic ...
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October 30, 2009
- Here in the centre stand the glass. Light Is the lion that comes down to drink. There And in that state, the glass is a pool. Ruddy are his eyes and ruddy are his claws When light comes down to wet his frothy jaws. -- Wallace Stevens, "The Glass of Water" The pride of lions -- stone and otherwise -- in Venice numbers in the thousands. For centuries the king of the beasts has served ...
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October 30, 2009
- It al began with a quest for grappa. Why my husband couldn't have just bought a good marc? But no he wanted Italian grappa. His search not only turned up good grappa at our first stop, but also an Aladdin's cave of Italian products at our second stop, the Au Village Italien. There was everything you could want, hams, prosciuttos, salamis, oils, wines, dried and fresh homemade ...
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October 28, 2009
- Every day throngs of tourists scramble to the Rialto, Venice's second most photographed bridge (after the Bridge of Sighs). But in their mad photographic dash, most of those tourists miss the best photo -- and culinary -- opportunity in Venice's San Polo area. There, just along the Canal Grande Venice's markets buzz as the restaurateurs and home cooks alike jostle for the best seafood, ...
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October 26, 2009
- When I saw the movie Under the Tuscan Sun years ago, Tuscany became a place I yearned to visit. The cinematography in the movie was beautiful, and the lure of a slower pace of life combined with the elements of great Italian foods and wines only accented the gentle beauty of the Tuscan land. We’ve always been a driving family—we enjoy absorbing the roll and beauty of a country as we pass ...
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October 23, 2009
- My favorite city in the world is FlorenceAnd not just any Florence but the tiny oneOn a shelf in a photograph from which I laughAt myself seated in a chair at a deskIn an office that lacks FlorenceFor an address, so that people when they comeIn to say hi or with a work-related questionSometimes wonder aloud where and whenAnd though I answer, I never tell themI’m terrified to have traveled ...
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October 14, 2009
- I am particularly concerned about this. In Italy we have an interior minister as shamefulas this one. Let's see what else we will have to hear http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120966.html
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