Walking (and Eating!) the Waterfront, Somewhere in Italy . . . .

 Simple pleasures here on the coast of Italy, somewhere in Lazio province. . . After the Little Ex-Pat heads off to daycare, we’re off-duty until pick-up time in the late afternoon (on the weekend, the…

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Post-Travel Word-less Wednesday. . .

Pater and I are playing Tourist in our own city today, showing around a couple of friends. But before we pick them up for the day’s adventures, I thought I could do a quick Wordless…

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Venice in Three Days? Impossible! But Well Worth the Doomed Effort, Truly. . .

Sweet Pater, he took five or six shots to get this one for me, first trying to figure out how he’d got stuck on a black-and-white filter, and then trying for an angle that minimised…

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Still Reading. . . Memoirs and Mysteries and a Historical Novel and . . .

Not ready to give up on this blog completely, yet, but for the time being keeping up two blogs is unrealistic if I’m to honour my commitment to my personal writing project.  I hope I’ll…

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A Few Hours in Naples…

Last Saturday, via car, then Metro, then fast train, we headed to Naples with our son-in-law and our 2-year-old granddaughter (our daughter stayed home with a heavy cold, sore throat).  Neither Pater nor I tried…

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