When we were in Italy far and and away the most stressful thing of all was figuring out where to eat. We would walk the sidewalks teeming with restaurants, everything smelling so good, unable to choose. I knew in my head how many meals we had in each place, and the last thing I wanted…
Sometimes I have a hard time at the beginning of the school year, mostly because I am not a student anymore. I loved school. I was really good at school. I would have made an excellent professional student. And sometimes I wish I had been a teacher just so I could always have that new…
I had a moment over these zucchini fries a couple of weekends ago. When we were in Italy we sat on our inn’s rooftop terrace with a couple of Canadians. They had come from Rome and Florence as well, and we were talking about the things we had loved and the things that had been…
I never thought I would get to this point, but after about five or six days of being in Italy and wandering around streets trying to figure out what to eat, I told Gerrit that I was tired of eating in restaurants. Yes, we had some amazing food (and, like anywhere else, we had some…
I don’t remember how we stumbled across Cinque Terre…I think in doing our research on Italy we saw a picture online and simultaneously said “We have to go there.” And it did not disappoint. It was beautiful, almost surreal. The sea (I just kept reminding myself: this is the Mediterranean!) was a true azul, clear…