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Chocolate Bliss!
Our friend Maria Teresa in Milan gave us a pocket-sized guide to Turin, which includes information on museums and shopping but places...
May 4, 20191 min read
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Royal Museums
Turin's Musei Reali, or Royal Museums, are a large complex of buildings and gardens that make up what I have read is the largest royal...
May 4, 20194 min read
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Notifications Progress
A couple of days ago I sent you all an email saying that if you signed up as Members you would get notifications whenever I did a new...
May 3, 20191 min read
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The Egyptian Museum of Turin
Thursday, because we expected it to be raining, we thought would be a good day for the Egyptian Museum, one of the top attractions in...
May 3, 20193 min read
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Yes, I Have Been Living Under a Rock
In Jackson Hole, fashion is not something that many people pay a lot of attention to--functionality and comfort are the highest values...
May 3, 20191 min read
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Turin: Initial Impressions
Our first day in the city was May first, which is International Labor Day in many countries including Italy, and therefore it's a...
May 2, 20192 min read
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Eventually Turin, and Another Apartment
I was at first a little unsure whether to say Turin or Torino, when speaking English. In Italian, while we're here, it goes without...
May 2, 20193 min read
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The Ambrosian Library
For our second (and last) morning in Milan, we visited the Ambrosian Library, a research and cultural center founded in 1607 that is one...
May 2, 20193 min read
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The Poldi Pezzoli Museum
Sunday night we had dinner with friends who are semi-relatives -- the sister and brother-in-law of Alessandro, who visited us in Siena....
Apr 30, 20193 min read
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Distorted Sculptured Figures
When we were in Siena at the museum of things that used to be part of the cathedral but were removed for one reason or another, we...
Apr 30, 20191 min read
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Briefly in Milan
We got an early morning start Sunday, checking out of our Siena apartment at 7:30, catching the 8:10 bus to Florence, arriving with an...
Apr 29, 20192 min read
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Siena Duomo Complex
On Saturday, since Steve had observed that the lines for the key local sights get very long quite early in the day, we got up early...
Apr 28, 20193 min read
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"Woman on a Stroll" Exhibition
The Siena streets are currently the venue for an exhibition of the work of sculptor Alberto Inglesi, on view from March 23 to May 8. The...
Apr 28, 20192 min read
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Empty Streets, Busy Streets, Clean Streets
Many times, streets in Siena and Florence remind me of De Chirico paintings of empty, desolate streets. No sidewalks or vegetation, doors...
Apr 27, 20191 min read
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Some Reminders for Me and Maybe Also You
The She-Wolf, Remus and Romulus A couple of years ago when we visited Siena I was surprised to see the Roman emblem of the she-wolf...
Apr 27, 20192 min read
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How We Spent Liberation Day: Museo Civico
Thursday, April 25, was Liberation Day, a national holiday celebrating the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II. The date was...
Apr 26, 20193 min read
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Motorcycles versus Scooters
In Siena there is almost nowhere for cars to park. On the narrow streets of the city, if there is a parked motor vehicle, it will almost...
Apr 25, 20191 min read
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Siena Apartment
On Tuesday morning we left our keys to the Florence apartment on the dining table, squeezed our luggage into the elevator, and took a...
Apr 25, 20192 min read
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Friends in Foreign Places
One of the things that please me the most about these travels of ours is that we know people in France and Italy and England with whom we...
Apr 24, 20192 min read
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Saintly Stories
The Christmas when I was ten, some colleagues of my father's (in retrospect, probably quite religious Catholic ladies) gave me a lovely...
Apr 24, 20193 min read
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