Today I was showing the girls around Genoa. It is so beautiful they were duly impressed. Sarah passed a bag store and wanted this beautiful bag, it cost 200 euros. (I was actually relieved when she said a designer bag I was braced for 1,000s–not that she would have gotten it). So I was going…
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Day 7: the dinner
Day 7 evening: the family arrived My daughters arrived with Minne at 8:00. I had a huge feast of the different types of focaccia bread, vegetable tarts, etc. that I had bought at the market. It was feast everyone enjoyed! Especially because everyone was so tired from their journey. I though I had too much…
Day 7: preparing for dinner a’la Mrs. Dalloway
I decided I would do the shopping for flowers myself. What a lark! What a plunge! Today I have to get a nice dinner ready for Minne and the girls when they arrive at 7 or 8 pm tonight. They think it is late but it is actually standard dinner time for the Italians (actually…
Night Six in Genoa: Nietzsche, Castelletto, and Fasona
(Note to Linda Watanabe McFerrin: yes that is a series comma in the title!) First a note about the weather. Rome: the highs were in the 90’s with sweltering humidity (70+%) Castel Gandolfo: the highs were in the low 80’s or high 70’s but with 70% humidity it seemed hotter. So far in Genoa: it…
Day 5 evening: a magical night
Genoa is incredible! But it was not off to a good start. I arrived in Genoa Piazza Principe station. I took two metro stops to the new AirBNB but there was no up escalator only two escalators going down. I did not want to go up those steep steps with two bags, pne of which…
Days 3 & 4: I Castelli Romani
Days 3 & 4: I Castelli Romani I left Rome very early on day 3 to escape the heat. It was already creep[ing upwards to 80 degrees and I could not bear the thought of dragging two heavy bags and my back up down and up and back down and up three flights of stairs:…
Day one: Roma–La Dolce Vita
Roma, 8 lujlio 2021 It is nothing short of miracle I am here to write this entry today, more on that later. 24 hours ago I was in San Francisco. For 240 hours I was obsessing about the ever changing requirements to enter Italy as an American citizen. Proof of vaccination was unclear. Types and…