Il Rigo Tuscany

For the last couple weeks my Italian culture class has been on and off again because my professor was hospitalized with pneumonia. This week she finally resumed lectures, however we are in a different class room that is literally right across from her apartment so she doesn't have to walk a long way in the cold. And it is getting really cold in Siena right now.

This, unfortunately, means ...

... a guidebook recommendation) for lunch – and It. Was. Awesome. Set off a little street, through a small door framed in ivy, this little hole-in-the-wall served up phenomenal Tuscan food. (A sign inside the restaurant stated: “Slow Food Zone.” Hah.) We started out with bruschetta, and from there, we each had a pasta as our first plate (“primi piatti”) – I had a spicy spaghetti with meat sauce, and Murray had the ...

Arezzo, la ville qui a suposement inspirer michelange !! 500 ans plus tard, on se deman de bien ce qui a pu l'inspirer! Puis c'est roberto bellini qui a fait son fillm "la vita est bella" dans les cantons a l'extrerieur des murs de la ville. C'est vrai que ...

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Thursday caught a bus to Siena with Nonie and Kerrin.
The Duomo there is one of the best and most beautiful churches I've seen inside and out - and I've seen more than enough churches to last ...

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We were let go from the tour at the Duomo and look around on our own then left to souvenir shop. We ran into the Orrs and Jim wanted to stop at McDonalds for dinner so we stopped and watched him eat. The two couples then moved onto the Piazza Campos were we found a restaurant to have dinner at. Kathie had soup and I had pasta while we watched the tourist go by in the piazza. While our meal was being prepared she told me that she saw our neighbors from home go by. I ran out ...

... protected by a powerful electric fence. Not exactly welcoming. While enjoying our lunch we were vistied by a biker who was making his way from Florence to Siena. Exhausted, he asked if the roads were all up and down hills like he had experienced so far. Our answer: likley far worse than that. Our stay in Chianti continued as we headed towards our B&B /winery near Greve-in-Chianti. It took us the better part of a couple of hours to find the winery ...

... frightened squirrel than a human being. Trying to maximize our time before meltdown we hurried past the achievements of Western civilization much too quickly. The rooms were full of large colorful oil paintings. The order usually went, angels helping Mary, angels buzzing Christ, bloody Jesus, Fat Angels throwing flowers, really bloody Jesus, serious guy and so on. Collette commented about the religious gore by saying," He has lots of owies, on his hands and on his ...

... corner we saw a group of break dancers. At a bridge we saw a man playing an instrument and singing for a video crew, maybe he was making a music video of some kind? There were random fountains and statues throughout the streets and the shops were full of leather goods, designer cloths and touristy gifts. Vespas really do rule the streets here and we jumped out of the way several times today. Late in the afternoon we ended up in front of the Duomo and took some ...

... forget. I was lucky enough that we passed through Gothenburg for a night on our way up the west coast and I got to go by the stadium where we had the opening ceremonies, the fields we played on and also the stadium where we played the final. Chapter 5: Smorgen, Sweden The swedish, along with other Scandanavian languages have some funny letters in it that we obviously dont have. For example, the town Smorgen is spelled with an "o" that has two dots over it which makes it sound like ...

... I de' Medici by Bronzino. One thing I noticed though was the very feminine statues of men. I know many of the artists were gay and liked girly men, but I seriously would walk toward a statue and think, what a beautiful woman. Then come around to the front for quite a surprise. Never seen a woman with one of those before. Wende went home after feeling sickish and I went shopping. I found a bunch of street vendors in a ...