Angels in the Sunshine

I’m busy enjoying city activities, although this week’s heat is a bit daunting. Vancouver isn’t a city with ubiquitous air-conditioning, and we certainly don’t have it in our condo. Nor do we have a floor…

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A Room in Peschici . . .

The bedroom in the apartment my son and daughter-in-law stayed in while we were in Peschici, Italy. I like the photo below, which shows the ancient beams on the ceiling, the white plastered walls, the…

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Home after Rome . .

Yesterday morning, I got out of bed at 3:50 a.m. after a fitful few hours’ sleep, and flipped the switch on the iPad alarm set to go off at 4. The only drawback to my…

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Colours of Rome

If Rome is going to seduce me (and honestly, the verdict is still out), it will be through its colours. I have some serious reservations about its apparently perennial obsession with power, blatantly manifest in…

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Last Day in Puglia….

We’re packing up today, between the trips down to the beach. Yesterday was a long day, over six hours of driving, some of it over heart-in-the-mouth twisting, narrow roads through forested hills at almost Italian…

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