This weekend Lucretia and I leave for Italy for six weeks. A former student of mine at Christ School asked if we would be interested in house sitting in his family home in Palestrina, forty minutes from Rome. The house is for sale, and because there are no current buyers they want someone with a feral presence to establish residence in the home.
We deliberated for a nanosecond and forthwith agreed. Our plans are to study Italian (there are still several thousand Italian words we don't know yet), read, take the train into Rome for day trips, drive to nearby villages, and sample wine and cuisine in the neighborhood.
Several planned road trips are as follows: Naples to attend Mozart's La Clemenza del Tito at the Teatro San Carlo, Parma (famous for Toscanini, Verdi, cheese and ham) for three or four nights, and San Polo-in-Chianti for a day or so with friends. For the last two weeks we have registered in a two-week language school in Venice. We will stay in a cloister on the island of Giudecca and every day take the water taxi to Dorsoduro for classes attended by Bright Young Minds from all over--Slovenia, Japan, Russia, Egypt, Poland, Malta , etc. ... much like the composition of students at the Lake Garda classes we had two years ago.
Part of our regimen will be to send blogs of daily life in Italy. Daughter Lucretia was with us this weekend and showed me some of the entry-level techniques of blogging.
I know that we are just creating more spam for you; nonetheless we will keep you posted.
And, if you wish, please send us any comments or suggestions you may have about places you have enjoyed or visited. Baedeker and Rick Steeves have not covered everything about Italian travel.
Reed and Lucretia
We deliberated for a nanosecond and forthwith agreed. Our plans are to study Italian (there are still several thousand Italian words we don't know yet), read, take the train into Rome for day trips, drive to nearby villages, and sample wine and cuisine in the neighborhood.
Several planned road trips are as follows: Naples to attend Mozart's La Clemenza del Tito at the Teatro San Carlo, Parma (famous for Toscanini, Verdi, cheese and ham) for three or four nights, and San Polo-in-Chianti for a day or so with friends. For the last two weeks we have registered in a two-week language school in Venice. We will stay in a cloister on the island of Giudecca and every day take the water taxi to Dorsoduro for classes attended by Bright Young Minds from all over--Slovenia, Japan, Russia, Egypt, Poland, Malta , etc. ... much like the composition of students at the Lake Garda classes we had two years ago.
Part of our regimen will be to send blogs of daily life in Italy. Daughter Lucretia was with us this weekend and showed me some of the entry-level techniques of blogging.
I know that we are just creating more spam for you; nonetheless we will keep you posted.
And, if you wish, please send us any comments or suggestions you may have about places you have enjoyed or visited. Baedeker and Rick Steeves have not covered everything about Italian travel.
Reed and Lucretia
Nice work on the blog Dad! We look forward to reading more about your travels. How is the snow? Love, Reed
ReplyDeleteLooks good! Are you sure you don't want to change the name to "The Blogsta"? Douglas
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ReplyDeleteHi Reed and Lucretia, There was no photo of your grand daughter and the post looks fine so far.
ReplyDeleteHave fun,
Buon Giornio (oh, oh, I forget spelling. We have good friends in Milano, but don't speak Italian on SKYPE enough).
Peace, Marti and Rod
Hey, this blog does not seem to update.
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http://www.examiner.com/charleston-outdoorsman-in-charleston/tanzania-practices-extreme-management-no-different-from-qdma
ReplyDeleteYour friend and student, for The Sun Also Rises is the only book I have posted in my facebook literary interests. Wonder why?,
Pamplona, #40 fall, #16 spring-
1992 NC batting title and state semi-finilists, The Greenies Baseball Team and Big R, redundantly sounding, are (ar-ar), stuttering, are some of my most visited memories, and with that I leave you as one of your worst English students...
Respectfully,
Jonas
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...and see what a Christ School education will do for a 3 out of 5-er under the age-old 5 Fold Philosophy. Got religion, got athletics and I dug some holes, what are the other two, BTW?