Hosting Culture Hotel Villa Ven Grado

So these days, the weather is warming up! Can you believe it? We have gone from having fog all the time to having days of gorgeous sunshine. Sarah and I have a big balcony on our room. Our room faces the right way and we have old windows that open right up. It makes it the perfect place to lay out and have mates over to do the same. I can alread...

On Saturday I went to Lake Como; it was lovely and so beautiful! It was also FREEZING cold - but the sun was shining, and I was thankful for that! There were so many places to eat in Como, I couldn't believe it...I think I had like, 5 meals. First I had pizza, then gelato, then fruit, then McDonalds (Italy-style! They do a good McDonalds too, I ...

Okay in order to write this blog entry, I have to expose myself as the naive and sort of clueless world-traveler/adventure-person that I am. (I know, right? Shocking! ) But I will risk looking like a fool in order to tell you all my stories, because everyone is being so nice and pretending to be super interested in my blog, and I don't want to d...

Bon la température et le temps ce matin m'ont bien calmé, non l'hiver n'est pas finit meme en Italie... Il faisait 4° dans la tente mais bon avec mon optimisme je me suis dis que dès que le soleil reviendrait ca se réchaufferait... Ben non... Pire il a commencé a pleuvoir plus tard... Mais bon peut etre que le paysage en vaudrait le coup... Ben ...

So it's been a while, and I don't like to keep my readers hanging (all 3 of you).

So, Monday we had a deadline for studio...always fun!! Gruppo Chiasso now has a direction and a project! YAY! I'm going to designing a park, with these nodes of interaction. The idea is that there are these forms that people can climb on and play on, but ...

Une etape que je redoutais, celle qui me permet de passer les Alpes... Elle a commence sous les nuages et la neige ensuite. Mais finalement tout le reste etait impecable, pas trop de camions et une route nickel, presque trop facile! :-)
Et quelle recompense, un temps splendide en Italie et presque 20°! Du coup après avoir posé la tente j'ai ...

Here in Milan I am taking a class called "Post-Industrial International Business: The Case of Fashion." Last week we received an e-mail from our teacher that told us she pulled some string and we get to attend Fashion Week! This was such a dream come true for me...never in a million years did I think that I would get to actually see a fashion sh...

The Albergo Diffuso is actually sustainable tourism’s “third way”, a form of hospitality in which Italy is a pioneer and in which the Italian regions most attentive to the environment and niche demand are showing great interest. A new form of tourist hospitality that brings into play the local public administration and resident...

After three weeks of family, I was sad to send them off. We had so many adventures and had shared so such, and not knowing when I would see them next gave me a little pang in my heart. But...the next leg of Marty's and mine adventure awaited. We took a train into Milan and then booked a train into Rome. Being accustomed to trains in Germany and ...

February 7-10! We were talking about food on Tuesday in Italian class (what else is new), and I asked my teacher if he had a recipe for pastry cream, and he did! He said he would bring it on Thursday! I was so excited, I'm slowly gathering recipes! I also had a quiz in my Contemporary Italian Society class. It was supposed to cover both history ...