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Day 10: Florence
... of Michelangelo, Galileo, Niccolo Medicci and Dante, as well as works by Donatello. On our way there, we walked through a little alleyway where school children were being let out for the day and families were there picking them up (no one was in a car; everyone walked or rode bikes). It was a very cute, Italian, everyday scene, and we enjoyed watching it unfold. All the parents picking up their kids had some kind of snack for them -- that must be some kind of tradition or regular ...
Gotta Love Italian Trains
... then got ready for dinner at Tredici Gobbi (13 Hunchbacks) - this was a recommendation from a family friend. Very cute decor, and not far from our hotel. The food was excellent, but it was definitely an American tourist crowd. Afterwards we wandered around the town, having a glass of wine here, a mug of birra there, and a glass of limoncella here, and so on. We listened to a very good guitarist in the Palazzo Veccio who played John ...
Riflessioni storiche
E' da molti giorni che non scrivo nulla e me ne scuso, coi pochi lettori. I corsi di GPS e l'impegnativa attività sociale che svolgiamo qui al CGT mi hanno levato il tempo di scrivervi 2 righe. Ma oggi è un giorno che ritengo vada commemorato e sottolineato, non in senso positivo, ma per cercare di avere tutti consapevolezza della direzione che sta prendendo il nostro Paese, che qualche mese fa non ho voluto lasciare perché ancora credevo che valesse la pena lottare per ...
2 giorni a San Giovanni
L'avventura è cominciata: sono arrivata venerdì nella Valdarno, nel simpatico paesotto di San Giovanni Valdarno. Non è un centro iperattivo, anzi direi che è piuttosto tranquillo. Dopo il primo pomeriggio di ricognizione per prendere posto in collegio e conoscere i miei nuovi compagni di dimora, sabato abbiamo visitato La Verna. Il monastero è in cima a una collina dal profilo scosceso, ...
Pinch me.
... up to me and asked me to take a picture of him with the Swiss mountains in the background. After I did, he said, "I figure, you can take the picture, you’re Indian," (he himself was Indian). When I told him that I was American, he said that he thought I was Indian because of my sandals (which are from Ann Taylor – nice cover-up), and then asked me where “the motherland” is. He didn’t stop questioning me ...