Siena Italy cityscape

Adventures on planes, trains and automobiles

Travel

  • Training Day

    Training Day

    Four days before I graduated high school, my brother broke his leg. He was trying to snag an errant throw at second on a double play during summer baseball and the kid from the other team slid right into him and broke his leg so badly, he had to have (and still has) a metal…Keep…

    Continue Reading ⟶: Training Day
  • Day-Tripping to Trieste

    Day-Tripping to Trieste

    We are still discovering the places where we can visit for day trips and Trieste was definitely on the list. My brother’s fiancee (!!) had lived there for two years and had some great suggestions for us, so we hopped a late morning train for the hour-ride to Trieste. Since we arrived at lunch time,…Keep…

    Continue Reading ⟶: Day-Tripping to Trieste
  • It’s a miracle, I tell you

    No sooner than I post a rant about the rainy weather, then we wake up to a gorgeous day. It’s a miracle. One that clearly called for me being outside…so I ventured outside the city walls (literally) to walk around the neighborhood and snap a few photos (two, really, because I didn’t want to seem…Keep…

    Continue Reading ⟶: It’s a miracle, I tell you
  • The sky is blue?

    The sky is blue?

    Non mi piace la pioggia! Know what that means? It means ‘I don’t like the rain’… I didn’t even have to look it up. I know that phrase by heart. I know the weather is a lame post topic, but seriously. It has been SO gray and rainy here. Late last week, Dave and I…Keep…

    Continue Reading ⟶: The sky is blue?
  • A weekend in Venezia

    A weekend in Venezia

    One of the (many) things that I had to look forward to when we decided to move to Italy for Dave’s school, was that his program would take us just a two-hour train ride from Venice, where one of my cousins has been living for a few years. On Saturday, Dave and I took the…Keep…

    Continue Reading ⟶: A weekend in Venezia
  • Here comes the sun

    Here comes the sun

    The sun finally came out today! Hooray! I’m sitting here with the windows wide open— never mind that it’s a breezy 55–day. I don’t even care. It’s sunny! On Sunday night, one of Dave’s classmates (and his wife) invited everyone over for wine and heavy apps which was very nice of them. It also gave…Keep…

    Continue Reading ⟶: Here comes the sun
  • Turning 31 in Udine

    Turning 31 in Udine

    I hear California is entering official drought status. Meanwhile, here in Udine… So I turned 31 this week and Udine celebrated the occasion with buckets of rain…like sheets of it. I even tried to take a photo of these torrential downpours but the rain was so solid, that it was hard to see individual drops—…Keep…

    Continue Reading ⟶: Turning 31 in Udine