Venice can get a pretty bad rap. It is hard to tap into “real life” under the layers of tourists. There are endless leather shops, blown glass shops, big glossy menus promoting copious tourist lunches in English. Ok, it is not an undiscovered gem. But, I don’t care. There is something else. Venice is still […]
My parents arrived for their weeklong+ visit with us. After a few fun days of touring around Torino, we all boarded an early morning train for our first stop, Milan. Josh and I took the kids to Milan in August, in the blazing heat. It was quite a different experience to arrive in crisp, fall […]
I know that I have been viewing Italian life through gelato-colored glasses. Besides whining about the difficulties with our visas, I’ve been sharing almost exclusively positive, rosy stories about our sabbatical year thus far. Maybe because I have felt sick all day, or maybe because there is construction on both sides of our apartment (how […]